tEL aVIV, Feb. 23 -- Hamas on Saturday released the last six living hostages under the first phase of its ceasefire with Israel with a week remaining, as growing questions over the next phase clouded the future of the fragile deal.
The six included three Israeli men seized from the Nova music festival and another taken while visiting family in southern Israel when Hamas militants stormed across the border in the October 7, 2023, attack. Two other hostages had been held by Hamas for around a decade after each entered Gaza on their own.
Five of the captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful, escorted by masked, armed Hamas fighters in front of hundreds of Palestinia...