13 Israelis treated at separate hospitals * Second group of hostages set for release today on 2nd day of truce * Israel working to reunite 11 freed foreign nationals with families

• 2min agoSirens sound in Israel’s Upper Galilee region near Lebanon border
• 32min agoIsrael prepares to receive second group of hostages slated for release later Saturday
• 50min agoPhilippines president says additional national may be among hostages in Gaza
• 1hr agoIDF shoots down guided missile fired from Lebanon; northern resident hear loud explosions

By RICKY BEN-DAVID and TOI STAFFToday, 5:04 am

• A helicopter carrying hostages released by Hamas lands at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
• In this photo provided by Thailand’s Foreign Ministry, ten of the freed Thai hostages and an officer, fourth from left, pose for a photo at the Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) in Israel Friday, Nov. 24, 2023.(Thailand’s Foreign Ministry via AP )
• Keren Gonen wears a T-shirt with a picture of her sister Romi on November 24 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
• An IDF officer embraces Danielle Aloni after her embrace from Hamas captivity on November 24, 2023. (Courtesy)
• The hostages released by Hamas in an ambulance en route to Israel on November 24, 2023. (Screen capture/Youm7)

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The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happen.

2min ago

Sirens sound in Israel’s Upper Galilee region near Lebanon border

Sirens warning on incoming projectiles are sounding in northern Israel, in the Upper Galilee area near the Lebanese border.

The alerts are trigged in the communities of Yiftah and Mevo’ot Hermon.

It is not clear if missiles or rockets from Lebanon triggered the sirens, but they came after Israel said it shown down a surface-to-air guided missile fired from Lebanese territory a short time ago and responded to the attack by targeting Hezbollah sites.

32min ago

Israel prepares to receive second group of hostages slated for release later Saturday

By TOI STAFF

Following a day of mixed emotions as 13 Israeli hostages — mothers and their young kids, and elderly women — were freed by Hamas in Gaza after 49 days, Israelis are bracing for the release of the second group of 13 hostages set for later Saturday.

The expected release will come on the second day of the lull in fighting as part of a hostage deal that went into effect Friday at 7 a.m. The temporary truce deal between Israel and Hamas includes a four-day pause in the war, the first in seven weeks since Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, and the release of a total of about 50 Israeli hostages in groups of roughly a dozen per day day.

The four-day truce can potentially be extended for one extra day for each group of 10 more hostages freed by Hamas.

As part of a separate deal, 11 foreign nationals — 10 Thais and one Filipino — were released by Hamas on Friday after being abducted on October 7.

On Friday night, Israel received the list of hostages who are slated to be released Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said.

After reviewing the list, Israeli security officials notified the hostages’ families, the PMO said.

Israeli authorities had notified both the families of the hostages being released Friday as well as those who were not on the first list.

Channel 12 reported that the latest list of hostages set for release Saturday has 13 names and includes more children.

Only four of the 13 Israelis released Friday were children. Hamas and other terror factions abducted some 240 people on October 7, including about 40 children.

Netanyahu’s office has urged the media to act with caution and avoid publicizing the names of those on the list before they are back in Israel.

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