By Idorenyin UMOREN
With inputs from Agency reports
|FOREIGN| Hamas has published the names of four female Israeli hostages who are set to be released by the terror group tomorrow, Saturday , January 25, 2025, after 477 days in captivity, The Times of Israel reports.
Israeli officials have requested that media outlets not publish the names until the families of the hostages have been notified.
There are seven remaining female hostages from the original list of 33 to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire deal.
According to The Times of Israel, they are civilians Arbel Yehud, 29, and Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33; and soldiers Liri Albag, 19, Karina Ariev, 20, Agam Berger, 21, Danielle Gilboa, 20, and Naama Levy, 20.
Israel had conveyed to Hamas that it expects Yehud to be released this weekend.
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