Hamas hands over three Israeli hostages to Red Cross in Gaza

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Hamas has handed over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza’s Khan Younis, in the sixth hostage-prisoner swap under its ceasefire agreement with Israel, AFP reports.

Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen, Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov and Israeli-Argentinian Yair Horn were paraded on the stage and told to address the crowd before their handover to the Red Cross.

 Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov, a hostage held in Gaza since the Oct 7, 2023 attack, speaks as he is released by Palestinian fighters as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb 15, 2025. — Reuters/Ramadan Abed
Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov, a hostage held in Gaza since the Oct 7, 2023 attack, speaks as he is released by Palestinian fighters as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb 15, 2025. — Reuters/Ramadan Abed

 Iair Horn, US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov, hostages held in Gaza since the Oct 7, 2023 attack, are released by Hamas as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal in this still image taken from a video, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb 15, 2025. — Reuters/Reuters TV
Iair Horn, US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov, hostages held in Gaza since the Oct 7, 2023 attack, are released by Hamas as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal in this still image taken from a video, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb 15, 2025. — Reuters/Reuters TV

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