Listen Live

11/28/23 - Cease-Fire Has Been Extended

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 7:20 AM

Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images

Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days.

-A four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel has been extended by two days, Qatari officials announced on Monday. 

A number of sources have reported that a number of people taken hostage during Hamas' Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel and held in the Gaza Strip were released over the last few days.  

Hamas has freed 69 of the hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons. 

Israel is open to extending the cease-fire with Hamas even further, as long as the militant group can free at least 10 Israeli hostages per day. Talks are apparently underway on the Israeli side to further extend the truce. It went into effect last Friday and was set to expire Tuesday but both sides agreed to extend it by two days. 

Israel announced this morning that it has agreed to possibly release more Palestinian women from its prisons over the next two days amid an extended truce with Hamas. 

Meanwhile, the cease-fire has allowed for more aid to enter Gaza. The United States says they are sending three relief flights into Egypt to keep up the flow of humanitarian aid into the war-torn Gaza Strip.  

Some 800 trucks carrying aid have crossed into Gaza during the first days of the pause, officials said.  So far, a total of about 2,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since Oct. 7, meaning that 40% of them had gone in in just the last four days. 

Planes today will be carrying medical aid as well as food.  

The aid will be delivered by the United Nations to civilians. 

Share

More from Featured

On Air Now Mornings with Jeremy & Amanda
Strong Anne Wilson 8:55am
Your Love Blessing Offor 8:51am
Encouraging Words From Your Bible

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “no” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ…

TITUS 2:11-13 | NIV
Family-Friendly Commercial-Free
91.3 WCSG
Grand Rapids / Lakeshore
88.3 WCXK
Kalamazoo
90.9 WCFG
Battle Creek
89.9 WCXB
Benton Harbor

Search 91.3 WCSG