Hamas will hand over two of six Israeli captives to the Red Cross at the Rafah site in southern Gaza today, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

The PIC has named the captives as:

  • Avera Mengistu, a 37-year-old Ethiopian Israeli dual national, who entered Gaza on his own in September 2014 and was picked up by a Hamas patrol.
  • Tal Shoham, a 39-year-old dual Israeli Austrian citizen who was taken captive on October 7, 2023 while visiting family in Kibbutz Be’eri.

A second handover ceremony will take place in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the report added.

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