Lucy Manning
Special correspondent

Before she was kidnapped, 75-year-old Ada Sagi - an Arabic speaker - had taught others the language so they could communicate with their Palestinian neighbours.

Her son, British-Israeli Noam Sagi, told me she was “peace-loving” and part of a community who “fought all their lives for good neighbouring relationships.”

Just before Ada was handed over to the Red Cross, he said that the family were going to give her "the biggest loving, squashy hug possible", and make sure she knew they "never stopped fighting" to get her back.

"But she doesn't know that she has no home to come back to," Noam said. "She doesn't know how many friends she's lost. So there is a long process of physical and emotional recovery but the most important thing is to feel that we are united and we are here for her."

Through it all, he has tried to stay positive but he said waiting to see if her name was on the list to be released has been like “Russian roulette to the heart.”

“We are in the midst of psychological terror. Every night waiting like a leaf for a list... Are we in? Are we out? It’s been excruciatingly painful,” he said.

As others teared down the posters of the kidnapped from walls in the UK he said he was talking to the lampposts that still bore the pictures of his mum.

“Your face is on so many, that is where I get the most comfort” he said.

But Noam, finally, has got his mum back.

Lucy Manning
Special correspondent

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The son of 75-year-old hostage Ada Sagi - who the Israeli PM's office says has just been released - earlier told me the wait had been “psychological terror”.

British-Israeli Noam Sagi has spoken extensively to the BBC over the last 53 days - including just before his mother was handed over to the Red Cross tonight.

Ada was due to visit London for her 75th birthday the week after she was kidnapped.

I met Noam at his home in North London two days after his mum was taken from her home.

He played us a video filmed by Hamas that showed the gunmen on the grass outside his mum’s house and her car on fire.

He has met the prime minister, MPs, talked at rallies, spoken to diplomats and the Red Cross to try and get his mum released.

Noam called me this morning to tell me she was on the list of those due to be released. "It’s actually the first time this big bleeding heart is excited. It’s a bit unreal for now. We’re shaking," he said.

Ada, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, lost her husband last year. Now she has faced this unimaginable trauma.

Just before the hostages were handed over to the Red Cross, Noam said her family would give her an enormous hug “just to connect and remind her that we were never ever going to abandon her, that we never ever stopped fighting to get her back. She needs to feel that in every fibre of her body”.

The Israeli prime minister's office has released a statement saying the 12 hostages - 10 Israeli citizens and two Thais - are now back in Israeli territory.

"Their families were informed by the appointed officials that they were back in Israel," it said in a statement.

It named the 10 Israelis as:

• Tamar Metzger (age 78)
• Ditza Hayman (84)
• Norlin Babdila (60)
• Ada Sagi (75)
• Ophelia Edith Roitman (77)
• Rimon Kirsht (36)
• Merav Tal (53)
• The Leimberg family - Gabriela Leimberg (59), Mia Leimberg (17)
• Clara Marman (63)

We've just received a further statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), confirming that the 12 newly-released hostages have left the Gaza Strip:

We've just received this statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF):

Israeli media and international news agencies are reporting that the next group of hostages are being handed over by Hamas to humanitarian organisation the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Today's planned release is part of a two-day extension to a pause in the fighting that'll see Hamas release hostages - and, in exchange, Palestinian prisoners released by Israel.

A bus has been filmed arriving outside an Israeli prison this evening ahead of the exchange.

The BBC hasn't been able to independently verify the latest reported transfer of hostages - but we'll bring you more news as we get it.

In the meantime, you can read about the hostages released so far here.

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Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are “war zones”, says a Unicef spokesman who's currently visiting the enclave.

“Children are scattered everywhere. I went to a hospital a couple of hours ago to try to catch up with a child I had seen, and ended up seeing about 10 different children, all of whom had had limbs amputated,” James Elder tells the BBC.

He adds that in a camp in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, he also saw a “dire” situation regarding sanitation and nutrition.

“Everywhere I turn there are people in tiny little spaces in camps, in hospitals," says the spokesman for the UN's children's agency. "The sanitation, the sewage systems can’t be cleaned around hospitals and shelters. If you combine a lack of water and food with rain spreading the risk of disease, it terrifies us."

The Palestinian Red Crescent has tweeted to say that Israeli forces prevented, external a fuel truck, part of a convoy of humanitarian aid, from crossing into the north of the Gaza Strip.

The fuel truck was travelling with 31 others carrying food, water and relief supplies.

During the temporary ceasefire aid groups have said that supplies have been able to reach the north of the enclave, where access had previously been denied, but that more is needed.

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In the last few hours, three Israeli soldiers missing since the 7 October attacks have been confirmed dead by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

In notices online about them being killed, the IDF names the three as:

• Staff Sgt Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, aged 20, external
• Sgt Kiril Brodski, 19, external
• Sgt Shaked Dahan, 19, external

No further information is given about how the three died, other than they had been "kidnapped by a terrorist organisation" and their date of death being listed as 7 October.

Under IDF policy for killed soldiers, all three men were promoted by one rank upon their deaths.

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Paul Adams
BBC diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem

As small groups of hostages emerge from captivity, we’re starting to learn more about the conditions in which they were held.

There are descriptions of crowded underground hallways, of rooms with little electricity, and hostages denied pens in case they tried to communicate covertly among themselves.

“The girls would sometimes cry. It was very difficult,” 78-year old Ruthi Munder told Israel’s Channel 13.

“We slept on benches, without a mattress. We covered ourselves with a sheet. The boys slept under the benches, on the ground, because we wanted them next to us.”

Food varied. Ruthi Munder said she received chicken and rice at first, with tea twice a day.

But others spoke of a meagre, dwindling diet of canned hummus, pitta bread and salty cheese.

Towards the end some hostages said they received just two slices of bread a day.

Those involved in looking after the children who have been freed say they are noticing all sorts of effects.

A resident of Kibbutz Be'eri said two released girls were still speaking in whispers, after weeks of being told to keep their voices down by their captors.

As we wait for news of today's Israeli hostages set to be released, we have a bit more information on one of the families still being held captive - the Bibas family, a mum, dad and two young boys who were kidnapped on 7 October.

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy mentioned the family in his daily news update earlier, saying Hamas told them it no longer has the two boys - 10-month-old Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel.

"Hamas is saying that it does not hold them and has passed them on to another Islamist faction inside the Gaza Strip," Levy said.

Levy didn’t say whether their parents remained with Hamas or had been transferred with their children. Hamas has previously said it is not holding all of the captives, which could complicate efforts to free the most vulnerable.

It's just gone 18:15 in Israel and Gaza - and if you’re just joining us or in need of a recap, here are the latest developments:

• We're waiting to hear about today's expected release of more Israeli hostages, in exchange for Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons
• Earlier, Israel said it had received the list of hostages to be freed today, and that their families were being notified. Israel has not said how many will be released, but a Hamas official told the BBC that 10 will be freed on Tuesday, and another 10 on Wednesday
• The Hamas source also said that not all civilian hostages are in Hamas hands, with some being held by smaller groups such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which could complicate the rescue process
• Meanwhile, the Israeli military says a number of its soldiers were "lightly injured" after explosive devices were detonated and their troops shot at in northern Gaza. Hamas also said there had been a clash in northern Gaza, but said it had been due to Israel - and reiterated that they were committed to the truce

• Today's the fifth day of the temporary ceasefire. A Qatari official earlier said Doha was focused on further extending the ceasefire
• Aid workers are continuing to try and distribute aid across Gaza. The ceasefire has meant that about 200 lorries carrying humanitarian aid a day have been able to get in, up from an average of about 45 a day in the weeks following the outbreak of the war. However, aid agencies say much more is needed

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The ceasefire has meant that aid groups have managed to reach areas they hadn’t previously been able to while the fighting was ongoing.

However, the situation they’ve found in many of those places is “catastrophic”, says Corinne Fleischer, World Food Programme’s director for the Middle East.

She says it is "highly likely that the population of Gaza, especially women and children, are at high risk of famine if WFP is not able to provide continued access to food" - and a six day pause was "not enough to make any meaningful impact".

Samer Abdeljaber, also from the WFP, tells the BBC in the hardest to reach areas "our teams saw hunger, desperation, and destruction".

He also calls for an extension of the temporary ceasefire, saying: "Safe and unimpeded humanitarian access cannot stop now."

Also today, the World Health Organization warned that disease could kill more people than bombs if the health system in the Strip was not repaired quickly.

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One of the children released by Hamas yesterday was 12-year-old Eitan Yahalomi - and his aunt has been speaking to French media today about his time held captive.

She says that Hamas showed Eitan, who is French-Israeli, a "film of horror" showing footage of the 7 October attacks.

"Yesterday (when Eitan was released) we were so happy," Deborah Cohen told BFMTV, external, "but now that I know this I worry. It's unimaginable. I don't know who could do such thing."

"I wanted to believe that Eitan would be well treated. Apparently not. Those people are monsters," Cohen said.

Cohen also said her nephew told the family that Hamas threatened children with a gun when they cried.

Eitan was one of 11 Israeli hostages released on Monday, which you can read more about here - and you can watch the moment he hugged his mum for the first time here.

There is a meeting of the UN General Assembly being held this afternoon, discussing the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Motions passed in the UN are not legally binding, but carry moral weight due to the universality of the UN's membership.

You can tune into what is being said by clicking play at the top of this page.

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Earlier we heard from Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy, who was asked about Israel's next steps in the truce and the wider conflict.

He told a media briefing that "the current hostage release pause can be extended for another five days on the basis of the three for one swap" between Palestinian prisoners in Israel and Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

"We've allowed for another 50 respective Palestinian prisoners to be released if Hamas wants to continue releasing hostages, as we want to see," he said.

"Then, once Hamas stops returning hostages,” Levy added, “we will resume the military pressure on Hamas until it releases more of them”.

While the pause in the fighting is now in its fifth day, aid agencies say the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is still very much ongoing - and the temporary ceasefire needs to continue so they can continue bringing in aid.

We've been having a look at some of the pictures from the Strip today:

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Aid agencies have been using the pause in fighting to get desperately needed aid into the Gaza Strip, while residents have taken the opportunity to gather supplies and search for loved ones.

The BBC has spoken to Ali Mahdi who returned to Gaza City – the scene of some of the most intense fighting – to find his father and nephew lying dead outside the family home.

“When the truce came, I was able to move my father’s body and bury him at my house,” he says. "What did we do? We are neither Hamas nor Fatah, and we’ve never held a weapon in our lives."

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 14,500 people have been killed since Israel launched its retaliatory campaign following the 7 October attacks.

A further 1,500 are missing, the health ministry says, with many believed trapped or killed under rubble.

Hamas has responded to Israel’s claims of a clash in northern Gaza, saying there has been a "friction" in the field.

It happened due to the "enemy's clear violation of the ceasefire deal," they said.

Abu Obeida, spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, said the group was committed to the truce, and urged mediators to put pressure on Israel to "comply with all the terms of the truce on the ground and in the air".

The Israeli military says in the last hour three explosive devices were detonated close to its troops in two locations in the north of the Gaza Strip, which it says violates the "framework of the operational pause”.

It says that in one of the locations Israeli troops were shot at, and they responded with fire.

"A number of soldiers were lightly injured during the incidents," they said.

It adds that the “troops were located in positions as per the framework of the operational pause”. The BBC has not verified what happened.