TEL AVIV—Israelis held their breath as three women hostages were released from the Gaza Strip, the first group to be freed as part of a fragile cease-fire agreement with Hamas that went into effect on Sunday.
The three women—all civilians—were Romi Gonen, a 24-year-old waitress who was taken from the Nova music festival in southern Israel; Doron Steinbrecher, 31, a veterinary nurse and Israeli-Romanian citizen who was kidnapped from her home in kibbutz Kfar Aza; and Emily Tehila Damari, 28, a British-Israeli citizen who was also taken from her home in Kfar Aza.
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