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Three Israeli hostages have arrived at a hospital in Tel Aviv to receive medical attention.

They're the first of 33 hostages to be released by Hamas in exchange for hundreds of

Palestinian prisoners and detainees. And here's Hidal-Al-Shulchi has more from the hospital.

Emily Damari, Roni, Gonen, and Dorn Steinbrecher aged between 24 and 31, were all flown

by helicopter to the Shiba Hospital outside of Tel Aviviv just a couple of hours after they were released from Gaza.

Doctors here said that the three women are in stable condition and their priority was to be reunited with their families.

Photos of Damari showed that she had two fingers missing from one hand.

Israeli officials said her hand was wounded on October 7th when she was attacked by Hamas militants.

Friends and family of the three women gathered in the hospital, some draped in Israeli flags.

Bystanders cheered and danced as the ambulances carrying the women drove by.

In a statement released by Damare's mother, she said that while the nightmare was over for her daughter,

the wait for the other families waiting for their

loved ones to come out of Gaza is still impossible. Haddil al-Shalchi, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Meanwhile,

Palestinians burst into the streets in celebration of the ceasefire that halted fighting in Gaza,

with cheering and chanting. But as NPR's Ayabatrawi reports, people trying to return home will have a devastating sight.

Nearly everyone in Gaza who's been displaced in this war from their homes are going to return and find their homes likely rubble.

And that rubble cannot be easily removed.

Not only does Gaza Strip, which is besieged, not have the machinery to lift the rubble,

there are an estimated at least 10,000 bodies lift the rubble, there are an estimated at least

10,000 bodies under the rubble, unexploded munitions as well. So rebuilding will be a very difficult

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