The final 20 residing hostages held in Gaza were released on Monday, prompting elation and reduction all through Israel.
Crowds in Gaza, in the meantime, celebrated the discharge of more than 1,700 Palestinian detainees freed as a part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
“This is a historic dawn of a new Middle East,” US President Donald Trump informed Israeli lawmakers, having earlier projected confidence that the deal would maintain and that the struggle in Gaza was over.
The freed hostages tearfully reunited with their households in hospitals across Israel, whereas launched Palestinian prisoners embraced relatives within the West Bank and detainees arrived in buses to large crowds in Gaza.
Here are among the tales that made headlines over the previous week, in addition to some images that caught our eye.