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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Three Israeli women held hostage by Hamas in Gaza were freed today and they're now safely back in Israel. It's part of the ceasefire agreement intended to end the war. NPR's Greg Myrie has more.
Hamas released the three Israeli women in a chaotic scene in Gaza City. Masked Hamas gunmen drove a van carrying the women to a crowded square packed with Palestinians. The women were handed over to the Red Cross, which in turn delivered them to the Israeli military. They were then whisked back to Israel.
Video footage showed the women, ages 24 to 31, were all able to walk on their own, but there was no word on their overall condition. All three were seized by Hamas in the attack that ignited the war on October 7, 2023. These exchanges of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are set to carry on for weeks. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
President-elect Trump is holding his last rally at an arena in Washington, D.C. tonight before he is inaugurated tomorrow, telling the cheering crowd, we won.
Starting tomorrow, I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country. We have to do it. We're not going to have a country like it.
Trump touched on several themes, including the Gaza ceasefire.
Perhaps most beautiful of all, this week we achieved an epic ceasefire agreement as a first step toward lasting peace in the Middle East.
Earlier today, Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia. Meanwhile, his inauguration tomorrow is being held inside the Capitol for the first time since Ronald Reagan's second term in 1985 because of frigid weather in the nation's capital. This is the coldest air of the season and in many places in several years is descending from Canada and moving east.
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