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Two hostages with Russian citizenship Yelena Trupanov, 50, and 73-year-old Irena Tati who were freed by Hamas, arrive by helicopter at Israel's Sheba hospital in Ramat Gan. IMAGES
Drivers sound their horns and pedestrians applaud as ambulances transporting released hostages drive by, next to the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. IMAGES
Four helicopters carrying 22 released hostages - two hostages made their way by land to the Wolfson hospital - fly over the Israeli Air Force Base of Hatzerim on their way to different hospitals in central Israel. IMAGES
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell calls for the hostages held in Gaza to be immediately freed. "I ask for their immediate and unconditional release," he says on a visit to a kibbutz targeted by Hamas in the October 7 attacks. IMAGES
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says world must "demand hostages be freed immediately, unconditionally" during a briefing to international press in the Defence Ministry HQ in Tel Aviv. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).