Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement on Wednesday, confirming the release of roughly 50 hostages abducted by the Hamas terror group in Gaza during the October 7 attack, reported The Times of Israel.
Reaffirming their support to Israel in its war against Hamas, India and Australia also called for adherence to international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said efforts to retrieve hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7 are "now very close" following extensive negotiations over the past six weeks, CNN reported.
The IDF reported that its 162nd Division overnight completed the encirclement of Jabalia in northeastern Gaza and that the division is prepared to continue the attack. Terrorists were eliminated and terror infrastructure was destroyed.
As part of the IDF's continuing activities in the Gaza Strip, its aircraft attacked about 250 targets of the terrorist organization Hamas over the past 24 hours. Among the targets hit were dozens of terrorists, missile launchers and various terrorist infrastructures.
Gazans in Israeli custody confirmed to interrogators that terror groups actively operated in Gaza hospitals and even deeply embedded themselves in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in videos released by the Israel Defence Forces on Monday.
The secretary-general of ASEAN, Kao Kim Hourn, on Monday stressed that ASEAN is a maritime community and India is a maritime nation, adding that they both are working together in sectors including trade, investment, tourism, defence, and counterterrorism.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, approximately 1,850 wanted terrorists have been arrested throughout Judea and Samaria, about 1,100 of whom are associated with the terrorist organisation Hamas.
On the occasion of World Children's Day, Israel shared pictures of children held hostages by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, stressing that there are more than 20 children, including babies and toddlers.
The remains of a 12-year-old Israeli girl, burned alive alongside her twin brother and great-aunt in the October 7 Hamas onslaught on southwestern Israel, have been identified by archaeologists sifting through the rubble, family members said on Sunday.
Emily Hand was among the some 240 people kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and taken back to the Gaza Strip. Her ninth birthday was on Friday.
The body of 19-year-old IDF soldier Corporal Noa Marciano, who was abducted by Hamas, was extracted by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to the Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza.