Officials from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees arrived at a site in Khan Younis in Gaza ahead of the handover of Israeli hostages on Thursday, Hamas sources said. A spokesman for the PIJ’s armed wing said on Telegram that the group “completed procedures to hand over two Israeli hostages”. Three Israeli hostages are expected to be freed on Thursday in return for 110 Palestinian detainees.
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