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February 28, 2025

Talks Underway for Next Phase of Tenuous Ceasefire as Israel Releases Remaining Palestinian Captives
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Hamas is calling on the international community to put pressure on
Israel as Gaza ceasefire talks resume in Cairo and the first phase of
the agreement is set to expire on Saturday.

On Thursday, Israel released - after a delay - the remaining 46
Palestinian prisoners of the latest captives swap. Twenty-four of those
were children. This is Nidaa Abu Sahloul, mother of one of the released
children.

Nidaa Abu Sahloul: "Mohammed has been detained for 420 days. He has
spent the second birthday in prison. Praise be to God that he was
released after all this wait."

In Israel, an internal probe has acknowledged the military's "complete
failure" to prevent Hamas's October 7 attacks, which killed over 1,000
people and saw another 200 taken hostage.


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