The United Nations Palestinian Relief Agency UNRWA has to cease operations in Jerusalem and evacuate all premises by Jan. 30, Israel has told the United Nations.

“Hamas and other terrorist organizations infiltrated UNRWA a long time ago,” Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon wrote in a letter to U.N. chief Antonio Guterres. He subsequently posted the letter on X

Israel’s parliament voted in October to ban UNRWA operations.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said today that it has successfully completed the second phase of the hostage and prisoner exchange as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

“This phase began with the safe transfer of four hostages from Gaza to Israeli authorities,” it said in a statement. “The ICRC then facilitated the release and transfer of 128 detainees from Israeli detention centers to Gaza and the West Bank following pre-departure interviews to confirm their identities and assess their health and fitness for travel.”

It added that teams had conducted pre-departure interviews with other Palestinian prisoners before their separate release and transfer, and that “in total, 200 detainees were freed.”

“This work was carried out at the request of all parties involved and in close coordination with them,” it said. 

The four hostages released by Hamas today have arrived at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva in Israel.

“A short while ago Liri Albag, Daniela Gilboa, Karina Ariev and Naama Levi arrived at Belinson hospital,” said Dr. Hagar Mizrachi, an Israeli Health Ministry official. “They are now undergoing a health examination with the sensitivity and caution needed in their situation.”

Last week, the first hostages to be released as part of the ceasefire deal were reunited with family and friends after arriving at the nearby Sheba hospital.

Hundreds of displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat, central Gaza, gathered their belongings today, hoping they would finally be able to return to their homes in northern part of the enclave.

A NBC News crew witnessed them gathered on the streets — some with with their blankets on their heads, others with their children on the floor.

But their hopes were dashed today after Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement by not releasing hostage Arbel Yehud.

As a result, it said Israel said it would not pull back its forces blocking people making their way north.

NBC News’ Raf Sanchez reports as hostages set free by Hamas in the second round of releases since the ceasefire deal came into effect.

The four hostages got into blacks vans and were taken to an Israeli military facility for treatment.

The current ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas started on Sunday with the release of the first three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity in exchange for nearly 100 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel.

All women, Doron Steinbrecher, 31, a veterinary nurse taken from Kibbutz Kfar Aza; Emily Damari, 28, a British Israeli citizen also taken from Kfar Aza and a key figure in the kibbutz’s youth community; and Romi Gonen, 24, taken from the Nova Music Festival. 

Once the women were driven in Red Cross vehicles back to Israel, they met their mothers and were taken to a hospital near Tel Aviv to be medically evaluated. Staff at the Sheba Medical Center said none of the women required immediate medical procedures.

Their release marked the beginning of phase one of the deal, in which more than 30 of the remaining hostages are set to be released over the course of a six-week period.

About a dozen Palestinian prisoners released by Israel today have arrived at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, having entered the enclave via the Kerem Shalom border crossing.

Footage captured by an NBC News crew showed three men dressed in what appears to be prison uniform hanging from the door of a bus, chanting as they are swarmed by a crowd who sing back in unison.

Video taken from inside the European Hospital shows the prisoners being escorted through a corridor by a man uniform, some of them embraced by onlookers as they pass through.

Israel has released 200 Palestinians from its prisons as part of its agreement with Hamas.

On lampposts, in shop windows and on smartphone screens across Israel, the posters show a smiling, red-headed baby boy clutching a pink elephant.

And now the country is bracing to learn Kfir Bibas’ fate.

The youngest hostage still in captivity in Gaza, Kfir was just shy of 9 months old when he was kidnapped during the Hamas-led terrorist attack Oct.7, 2023. On Saturday, he turned 2, having never known a birthday outside captivity.

Along with his 5-year-old brother, Ariel, and his parents, Yarden and Shiri Bibas, Kfir is among the 33 hostages expected to be freed during the first phase of the ceasefire deal, according to the Israeli government. But it is unclear if the toddler is still alive. 

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Hamas said Saturday that it is waiting for Israel to withdraw its forces, after a second batch of hostages were released in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire agreement. 

“We await the withdrawal of the occupation according to the terms of the agreement, and the beginning of the return of the displaced to their lands and homes,” Hamas spokesman, Dr. Abdul Latif Al-Qano, said in a statement.

Earlier today, Israel said Hamas had “failed to meet its obligations” to first release Israeli civilian hostages as part of the ceasefire agreement. Hamas released four female Israel soldiers this morning.