GENEVA, November 28./TASS/. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release of 12 hostages held in the Gaza Strip, it wrote on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).

"Our teams have successfully facilitated the release and transfer of 12 hostages held in Gaza. We have been able to carry out this operation thanks to our neutral intermediary role," the ICRC blogged.

On November 22, Hamas reported reaching an agreement with Israel, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, on a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip that would last four days. The movement confirmed that the agreements envisage the release of 50 women, children and teenagers held in the enclave in exchange for the release of 150 women, children and teenagers from Israeli prisons. The agreement came into effect at 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on November 24, and the first group of hostages was released on the same day.

On November 27, Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari said that Israel and Hamas, with the help of mediators, reached an agreement to extend the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip by two days.