Geneva (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday for a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, including Gaza and the West Bank.

Joyful celebrations have broken out in Tel Aviv as the first three Israeli hostages were released under the Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas. Friends and relatives of the three women clapped and cheered in Hostages Square in central Tel Aviv when their release was confirmed,

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is set to begin on Sunday, pausing the devastating 15-month war between Israel and the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect on Sunday morning. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will be freed in the first phase of the deal.

Palestinians poured into the streets to celebrate and headed back to the rubble of their bombed-out homes on Sunday, as the Red Cross went to retrieve the first hostages to be freed under a ceasefire deal that halted fighting in the Gaza Strip.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is set to begin shortly. However, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the ceasefire will not begin until Tel Aviv gets a list of the hostages set to be released.

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Emily Damari was among three Israeli women released in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners, in the first exchange of the truce.

Hamas released three Israeli captives and Israel freed 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, on the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.

Paper bags with Hamas's armed wing logo said to contain pictures of the women from their time held in Gaza, official-looking 'release papers'

They emerged at last from the horrors of Hamas; out of the darkness and into the light. The final nerve-racking moments of an unspeakable 15-month ordeal for three young Israeli women has played out in front of the world as an uneasy and fragile ceasefire took hold in Gaza.