Hamas freed three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday and Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners after delaying the process in anger at the swarming crowds at one of the hostage handover points.

Israeli troops will remain in the Palestinians' Jenin refugee camp once the large-scale raid they launched last week is complete, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday as a crackdown in the occupied West Bank extended into a second week.

The Israeli military will keep a presence in Jenin following the current military operation in the northern West Bank city considered a stronghold of Palestinian militants, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.

Thousands have attended the funerals of ten Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on the northern occupied West Bank town of Tamoun.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the assault on Jenin would be “extensive and significant,” as the military erected new checkpoints across the West Bank.

Steve Witkoff, the U.S.’s new Middle East envoy, has joined Israelis in Tel Aviv who have gathered to watch the hostage releases in what has become known as “Hostage Square,” according to images broadcast on Israeli television.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced by the Israeli army amid a massive operation in Jenin and its refugee camp.

Israel Defense Forces said that Israeli security forces had begun a massive operation to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in Jenin, northern Samaria. The operation, known as the "Iron Wall," consists of IDF soldiers,

Man allegedly was in contact with terror group's handler abroad who has recruited others in the past, met with operatives in Jenin, took photos in Jenin holding a gun

JERUSALEM/JENIN (Reuters) -Israel's defence minister said on Wednesday forces were applying lessons learned in Gaza as a major operation continued in Jenin, which the military said was aimed at countering Iranian-backed militant groups in the volatile West Bank city.

Thursday’s prisoner-for-hostage swap marked the third round of exchanges as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas entered its second week.

The 32-year-old gas station worker joined the Lebanese terror group, which asked him to photograph a courthouse • Two other associates are accused of espionage – the cell traveled together to Jenin