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Red Cross vehicles are now arriving in Khan Younis, where a second group of captives are expected to be released, Al Jazeera reported.

“We are expecting the exchange process to start shortly,” reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum said.

Israeli captive Agam Berger has been handed over to the Red Cross in Jabalia camp.

Wearing a military uniform, she was seen walking through the rubble of a destroyed building in the camp, escorted by Palestinian fighters. 

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, the al-Quds Brigades, aired footage of two Israeli captives to be released from Gaza on Thursday as part of a ceasefire deal between its ally Hamas and Israel.

The two captives, Gadi Moses and Arbel Yehud, were seen hugging each other and smiling in the video clip filmed at an unknown location.

Hamas will hand over captives set for release in two separate locations north and south of the Gaza Strip as part of the third part of the exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, Quds News Network reported.

Al-Qassam Brigades deployed around the house of the slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, ahead of today's captive release, Quds News Network reported.

Hamas is set to hand over the captives to the Red Cross from around 9am (7:00 GMT), though there could be delays, according to The Times of Israel. The publication said the Israeli army is prepared for the scenario where the captives are released in more than one location in Gaza, including in the Strip’s south.

The captives being released in the coming hours are surveillance soldier Agam Berger and civilians Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes, and five Thai nationals.

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Israeli forces arrested 26 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank early Thursday, according to Wafa news agency.

At least eight Palestinians were detained in the Tulkarem governorate, including five in the town of Qaffin, one in Anabta, one in Faroun village, and one in the city of Tulkarem.

The report also stated that three people were arrested in Bir al-Basha village in the Jenin governorate.

In addition, the military raided the town of al-Ubeidiya, east of Bethlehem, and arrested 11 Palestinians. Four more Palestinians were arrested during a raid on the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are some of the latest updates:

• Israeli forces blew up a warehouse beneath a residential building in the al-Wakala neighbourhood of Tulkarem refugee camp, Wafa news agency reported.

• Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) says an Israeli Border Guard sniper shot 16-year-old Adam Majdi Ahmad Sub Laban in the back of the thigh from a military watchtower about 100 meters (328 feet) away. He was left to bleed out north of Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank on Sunday.

• Zakaria Zubeidi, a former Palestinian resistance fighter and theatre director known for his 2021 prison escape is reportedly among the 110 prisoners set to be released today as part of the latest Israel-Hamas exchange.

• President Trump has pledged to deport non-citizens in the US who took part in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses last year, calling them 'Hamas sympathisers'.

• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas thanked Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for opposing US President Trump’s proposed plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza.

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

Israel aunched a deadly drone attack on the occupied West Bank killing at least ten people. The death toll has been rising. 

The attack came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff Before the meeting, Witkoff visited the Netzarim Corridor inside the Gaza Strip, becoming the first American official to enter the besieged Gaza Strip in more than a decade.  

Here is what else you missed: 

•  Three Turkish citizens were killed in an Israeli air strike while crossing the Lebanese border to Israel
• A Palestinian prisoners advocacy group said that Israel will release 110 prisoners, including 30 minors, on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire hostage exchange
• Israel launched a raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank
• Qatar and Turkey are expected to host Palestinians released from Israeli prisons as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas

Israel launched a raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. 

Israel has been attacking towns across the occupied West Bank.

On Wednesday, Israeli troops arrested three Palestinians from a house in Bir al-Basha, south of Jenin, also. 

At least eight people were wounded by Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Thursday, according to Lebanon's health ministry. 

The strikes come despite Israel and Hezbollah  extending a ceasefire and deadline for Israeli troops to withdraw from the south to 18 February.

At least ten Palestinians were killed by an Israeli drone strike in Tammun in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday. 

The death toll from the strike has been climbing, making it one of the deadliest single Israeli attacks on the occupied territories this year. 

At least nine Palestinians were killed in a drone strike in the occupied West Bank town of Tammun, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said in a report. 

The attack is part of a wide range Israeli offensive across the occupied West Bank. 

A Palestinian prisoners advocacy group said on Wednesday that Israel will release 110 prisoners, including 30 minors, on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire hostage exchange. 

“Tomorrow, 110 Palestinian prisoners are to be released,” the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a statement. 

Three Israeli hostages are set to be released by Hamas on Thursday. 

An Israeli drone strike killed at least three Palestinians in Tubas in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Wednesday.

The organisation also said several people were injured. 

The Israeli military said earlier that it launched a drone strike on Tammun in the northeast of the occupied West Bank.

Israel's military said it carried out a drone strike in the northern occupied West Bank town of Tammun on Wednesday. 

The strike comes as Israel escalates its offensive across the occupied territory.