A pause in fighting appeared to hold Friday in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas as both sides anticipated an exchange later in the day of more than a dozen Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
An initial group of 13 hostages, all women and children held by Hamas, are expected to be freed around 4 p.m. local time Friday as long as a temporary truce holds. A group of Palestinian prisoners, made up of women and teenage boys, are set to be released after the hostages arrive in Israel.
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