Image source, Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Moran Stela Yanai and Raz Ben Ami are also among those who've been freed from Gaza tonight.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum says Yanai, 40, is a jewellery designer who was kidnapped from the Re'im music festival - where she was selling her designs.

Ben-Ami, 57, is also described by the forum as a creative - someone who designs jewellery, painting artworks and weaving dream catchers and macramé.

Over the past 13 years, she has suffered from growths in her brain and spinal lesions.

She was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Be’eri together with her husband Ohad, who is still being held captive in Gaza.

Image source, Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Image source, Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Among the other teenage Israelis released from Gaza this evening are Ofir Engel and Amit Shani.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum says Engel is a 17-year-old basketballer.

He was visiting his girlfriend in Kibbutz Be'eri on 7 October, when he, his girlfriend's father Yossi Sharabi, and their neighbour Shani were kidnapped. Sharabi remains in Gaza.

The forum says Shani is a quiet, intelligent 16-year-old. He is a surfer, skateboarder and a fan of Juventus FC.

He was kidnapped from his mother's house in Kibbutz Be'eri on 7 October.

Image source, Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Image source, Hostages and Missing Families Forum

We can now bring you more details about the latest Israeli hostages who've been freed from Gaza - on the sixth day of an extended truce between Hamas and Israel.

Among them is 13-year-old Gali Tarshanksy, who, according to Israel's Hostages and Missing Families Forum, is a sensitive, energetic girl.

She's a volleyball player on the Hapoel Ashkelon team, and has been described her mother as a team player.

She was kidnapped from the safe room of her home in Kibbutz Be’eri, southern Israel, where she hid with her older brother Lior, 16, who was killed.

We can now name the 10 Israeli hostages released this evening. They are:

• Ofir Engel (17)
• Liam Or (18)
• Itai Regev (18)
• Amit Shani (16)
• Raya Rotem (54)
• Raz Ben Ami (57)
• Yarden Roman Gat (36)
• Liat Atzili (49)
• Moran Stella Yanai (40)
• Gali Tarshantsky (13)

In total, six of those freed tonight were kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) humanitarian organisation has just confirmed in a social media post, external the release of 16 people.

As we've been reporting, four Thai citizens as well as two Russian-Israeli women have also been released from Gaza today, in addition to the 10 Israelis mentioned above.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has just confirmed the 10 Israeli and four Thai hostages are now out of Gaza and are in Egypt, on their way to Israel.

We'll be bringing you more news about those just released from Gaza - but first, another line from Qatar.

A spokesman for the the foreign ministry has affirmed in a social media post, external that 30 Palestinian prisoners will also be released tonight, as planned:

He wrote in a follow-up post that 16 of the Palestinians would be under the age of 18, and 14 of them women.

The Israeli military has just put out this statement, external:

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That seems an opportune moment to mention that the Global Story podcast has been looking at how Qatar has managed to become a key player in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

Today's new episode with Katya Adler features our security correspondent Frank Gardner - as well as BBC Monitoring’s Jaidaa Taha in Cairo.

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A source familiar with the talks has told the BBC that negotiations are still under way to extend the truce between Israel and Hamas.

It's currently unclear when this is due to expire, after the expected transfer of more hostages from Gaza to Israel. Reports differ on the timings.

The only hostages who've been returned to Israel on Wednesday are the two Israeli-Russian women mentioned in our earlier post.

The Israeli military said the pair's release was in addition to the list of hostages it's been expecting to receive today.

Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Jenin

Our correspondent continues her account of the aftermath of the death of two boys in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority said the pair were killed by the Israeli military. Israel hasn't specifically commented on the boys, but says it killed two "senior terror operatives" during a raid targeting a refugee camp.

As Basel’s body was prepared for burial in the crowded hospital morgue, a relative watched as the teenager was wrapped in the green flag of Hamas. It wasn’t what Basel would have wanted, he told me.

“He’s innocent, not from the militias,” he said, teetering between anger and grief. “He’s perfect in school, a good boy, kind.”

The war in Gaza has increased tensions here in the West Bank too. There are near-nightly raids by Israel’s forces in the West Bank.

In its operations here overnight, the army said it had killed a senior commander for Islamic Jihad, and arrested 17 others.

Israeli missiles, grenades and explosives have left a broad scar of destruction in Jenin - several houses gutted or collapsed; large chunks of masonry hanging over mounds of rubble.

Diggers were helping search for a body still believed to be buried there.

Militant leaders were the target here.

The UN says more than 50 children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the Hamas attack on 7 October.

Image source, Dave Bull

Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Jenin

Image source, Dave Bull

The small figure on the security camera video turns and starts to run, before falling sharply to the ground.

His eight-year-old body easily dragged from the road by a friend.

The life of Adam al-Ghoul ended in Jenin today with a shot to the head, as Israeli forces withdrew from a military operation in the camp there.

In a nearby street, his 14-year-old friend, Basel Abulwafa was fighting for his life after being shot in the chest - gunfire hitting the ground around him.

At Jenin Hospital, both boys were declared dead.

Israel’s army said suspects throwing explosive devices at its troops had been hit with live fire.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

Today’s sixth exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners seems to be happening.

Whether this process - which has so far gone ahead with barely a hitch – continues beyond tonight is less clear.

Both Israel and Hamas seem interested in further extensions but no deal has yet been announced, and Israeli officials say preparations are being made for a return to military action.

Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's war cabinet, said this could happen at any minute and would expand throughout the Gaza Strip. No city, he said, would be a refuge. It sounded like another warning to the people of Rafah and Khan Younis to evacuate their homes before fighting resumes.

The Israeli government has already given approval for a process that could, in theory, continue until the weekend, provided hostages are still being released. This would allow for the release of 100 children, mothers and older women.

Away from tonight's hostage release for a moment, many families in Gaza are using the temporary ceasefire to return to their homes and assess the damage.

The BBC caught up with one man, Wael Qudeih, who has been combing through the wreckage of his family's home in Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Qudeih, who has three daughters and two sons, says he has already had to rebuild it twice after previous conflicts.

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The two hostages who have just crossed over into Israel are mother-and-daughter Irina Tati, 73, and Yelena Trupanov, 50.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has just provided us with some information about them.

They said the family are Russian immigrants living in Israel, and that Irina has worked all her life as a doctor while Yelena works for a paint company.

Both Irina and Yelena were kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October as they spent the Sabbath together, along with Yelena's son Alexander and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen, who are still believed to be held captive by Hamas.

Yelena's husband Vitaly Trupanov was killed on 7 October. Yelena was one of three women who appeared in a video released by Hamas three weeks after the attack.

The Israeli military says two hostages have been released and are now inside Israeli territory.

The military says their release is in addition to the list of hostages who are due to be released today.

Hamas earlier said it had handed over two women with Russian citizenship to the Red Cross.

"After the released hostages undergo an initial medical assessment, IDF soldiers will continue to accompany them to hospitals, where they will be reunited with their families," the Israel Defense Forces says in a statement.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

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As another group of Israeli hostages is released from Gaza, Israel’s sense of relief is tempered by deep apprehension over the fate of Shiri Bibas and her two small, red-headed boys, Ariel and Kfir.

For many Israelis, 10-month-old Kfir is the innocent face at the heart of this whole terrible story.

Today Hamas claimed that all three had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. It didn’t say when or where.

The Israeli army said it was looking into the claim. Hamas, it said, continued to act in a cruel and inhuman way.

On Monday, the army said Shiri and the boys had been transferred by Hamas to another Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip and were being held in the southern city of Khan Younis.

In a statement this evening, members of the Bibas family thanked the people of Israel, said they hoped the information would prove false and asked for privacy.

If the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees leaves the Gaza Strip, the “last glimpse of hope the Palestinians have would disappear”, the head of that agency has told the BBC.

However, Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, says the agency “has no intention to leave the Gaza Strip”.

“We will do whatever is possible to scale up our response,” he told BBC’s HARDtalk.

Aid agencies have been using the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel to get desperately-needed aid into the Gaza Strip, but have reported finding desperation in many areas.

Image source, EPA

In his comments to the UN Security Council today, António Guterres also said that sexual violence during last month's Hamas attacks must be vigorously investigated and prosecuted.

The UN secretary-general said there were numerous accounts of sexual violence during the "abhorrent acts of terror by Hamas on 7 October" which saw thousands injured, more than 1,200 people killed and about 240 people abducted.

Speaking of the remaining hostages being held in Gaza, Guterres said that all of them "must be released immediately and unconditionally".

"Until then", he added, "they must be treated humanely and (humanitarian organisation) the ICRC must be allowed to visit them."

Image source, Reuters

The UN secretary-general has warned that the Gaza Strip is in the midst of an "epic humanitarian catastrophe".

António Guterres told a meeting of the UN Security Council today that "intense negotiations" were taking place to prolong the current truce - but the UN believed in the need for a "true humanitarian ceasefire".

Guterres went on to add that the level of aid to Palestinians in Gaza remained "completely inadequate" to meet the huge needs of more than two million people.

"Much more is required to begin to address human needs in Gaza. Water and electricity services must be fully restored. Food systems have collapsed and anger is spreading, particularly in the north.

He said children, pregnant women, older people and those with weakened immune systems were at greater risk - adding that 80% of Gaza's people had been forced to leave their homes.

As we reported earlier, Hamas has claimed that the youngest hostage, 10-month-old child Kfir Bibas, was killed along with his his 4-year-old brother and their mother in an earlier Israeli bombardment of Gaza - the Israeli military says it is assessing the claim.

We've now had a statement from the Bibas family via the Hostages and Missing Families Forum:

"Our family has learned of Hamas' latest claims. We are waiting for the information to be confirmed and hopefully refuted by military officials. We thank the people of Israel for their warm support, but kindly request privacy during this difficult time."