al jazeeraBy Ted Regencia and Lyndal Rowlands
Hamas and Israel announced extension of truce deal as current pause set to expire at 7am local time (05:00 GMT).
Sixteen Israeli and foreign captives were freed from Gaza on Wednesday and 30 Palestinian women and child prisoners were released from Israeli jails early on Thursday morning.
Qatar said that 10 of the released captives were part of the existing truce deal, while four Thai citizens and two Russian-Israelis were freed separate from that deal.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv on his third trip to the region since October 7. Blinken is expected to also visit the occupied West Bank.
More than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll stands at 1,200.
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