President Joe Biden has said a four-year-old US hostage was released from captivity in Gaza and returned to Israel as part of a truce, Reuters reports.

Biden said the hostage, Abigail Edan, had witnessed her parents being killed during an October 7 raid into Israel and was held as a hostage since then.

“What she endured is unthinkable,” Biden said at a news conference.

Biden said he hopes other American hostages would be released by Hamas as well. He said he would like to see the pause in the fighting extended as long as prisoners are being released.

“We will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones,” Biden said.