Israeli national Sagui Dekel-Chen along with two other hostages as the Gaza ceasefire remained on track after a tense week.

In a stunt criticised as “despicable and cruel”, the terror group forced one of the three men being released to hold an hourglass above the photographs of Matan Zangauker, a 25-year-old captured on October 7, and his mother Einav, a high-profile campaigner for the hostages’ release.