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A bus arrives at the entrance of the Israeli Ofer prison to collect Palestinian prisoners ahead of their expected release. Israel is expected to free some Palestinian prisoners on the sixth day of truce. Sixty Israeli hostages and 180 Palestinian prisoners have been released under the truce agreement. IMAGES
A bus transporting Palestinian prisoners freshly released from Israeli prisons in a Hamas-Israel hostage deal, arrive in the occupied West Bank town of Beitunia. IMAGES
A Palestinian is wounded by Israeli fire during clashes outside the Ofer prison, ahead of an expected release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages. Hamas militants were to release a second batch of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel on Saturday, officials said, as a truce is largely being maintained in the devastated Gaza Strip after seven weeks of war that killed thousands. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and release of remaining hostages by Hamas is near the "goal line." "I believe we're inside the 10-yard line and driving toward the goal line" on an "agreement that would produce a ceasefire, get the hostages home, and put us on a better track to trying to build lasting peace and stability," Blinken says at a forum in Colorado. SOUNDBITE
"Israel has offered, a comprehensive new proposal. It is a roadmap for an enduring ceasefire and release of all hostages," says US President Joe Biden. SOUNDBITE
Around a hundred people demonstrate outside Paris City Hall to demand the release of the pro-Palestinian activists arrested after the evacuation of Sorbonne University. IMAGES
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