KUALA LUMPUR: Israel and Hamas have released 78 Palestinians and 41 Israelis and foreigners respectively during the first and second day of the four-day cease-fire which began on Friday.
On Wednesday (Nov 22), Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary pause in the war that would enable the release of the captives.
Al-Jazeera and CNN reported that in the first batch, 39 Palestinians were freed from the Israeli jails on Friday (Nov 24), followed by another 39 freed late yesterday.
Among them include Israa Jaabis, a Palestinian woman who suffered severe burns and was charged with attempted murder after her car exploded near an Israeli checkpoint in 2015.
Hamas released 13 Israelis and 11 foreign nationals on Friday, followed by another 13 Israelis and four Thai nationals on Saturday.
It was also reported that Hamas is set to release a third batch of Israeli captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners today (Sunday).
It was reported that there were at least 8,000 Palestinians in Israeli custody.
The number includes 2,200 administrative detainees held without charge or trial.
Some 5,200 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons before Oct 7, while 3,000 more were arrested since Oct 7.
The number included 145 children, 95 women and 37 journalists.
The conflict, which began on Oct 7, had since killed 14,854 Palestinians including 6,150 children and injured more than 36,000 with 75 per cent of them children and women.
At least 6,800 were missing.
Meanwhile, despite the cease-fire, in the last 24 hours, it was reported that eight people were killed in various areas in the occupied West Bank.
One Palestinian killed in Jenin from a drone attack, while another one was killed in a raid in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus.
In another development, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on X application posted that it had delivered the largest convoy of 61 trucks of aid to Gaza and northern Gaza.
"It was loaded with food and non-food items, water, primary health care medicines, and emergency medical supplies, from aid that entered through Rafah today as well as from PRCS warehouses in the south.
"This convoy is considered the biggest one to bring aid to Gaza and the northern Gaza since the beginning of the ongoing escalation of 50 days so far."