The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed facilitating the release of nine detainees from the Kissufim crossing to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah in coordination with the ministry of health, Al Jazeera reports.

The group also “facilitated their contact with their families to meet and reunite them”, it said in a statement.

“In hospitals, they are also given the opportunity to use telephones to communicate with their families for reunification,” it added.