Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Terror group refuses to release ten-month-old hostage after 11 others are freed from Gaza - as truce extends into its fifth day

Qatar's foreign ministry has said there have been 'minimal breaches' of the truce agreement, amid smoke rising over the Gaza Strip.

It added that the breaches have not threatened the overall agreement.

According to the BBC, there have been reports that Palestinian groups may have fired on Israeli soldiers, unaware of yesterday's truce extension.

America is sending three military aircraft to Egypt, starting today, to bring vital humanitarian aid for Gaza, senior US officials said.

The relief flights carrying food, medical supplies and winter gear are the first by the US military since the conflict began with Hamas's October 7 attack.

The flights start a day after President Joe Biden said he would use the extension of the truce to get more aid into Gaza, and as international efforts continue to further prolong the pause in fighting which has so far killed thousands.

Upon its arrival, the United Nations will then take the aid from Egypt's North Sinai region, which borders the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, into the stricken Palestinian territory itself, the US officials said, according to AFP news agency.

Two further planeloads will arrive 'in coming days', they said.

The UN has said the truce made it possible to scale up the delivery of food, water and medicine to the largest volume since the start of the war.

But the 160 to 200 trucks a day is still less than half what Gaza was importing before the fighting, even as humanitarian needs have soared.

Juliette Toma, a spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said people come to shelters asking for heavy clothes, mattresses and blankets, and that some are sleeping in damaged vehicles.

'The needs are overwhelming,' she told The Associated Press. 'They lost everything, and they need everything.'

Meanwhile, the Hamas-run government media office in Gaza issued a statement saying the coastal strip needs 1,000 trucks daily to recover.

Of the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel, 98 were detained without charge, according to a report by CNN.

It said 119 were children and the remaining 31 were women.

In its report, CNN explains that Israel often places Palestinians under 'administrative detention', a practice that is widely criticised.

It means the detainee is unaware of the charges against them, and their case is not subject to any legal process. In other words, they are detained without a civil trial.

Israeli authorities say the practice is permitted under Article 78 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which relates to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War.

At the beginning of October, 1,200 Palestinians were being held in administrative detention, which according to human rights organisations is the highest number in more than three decades.

Arrests have increased since Hamas's attack on October 7.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has failed to show for a summit in Ankara that Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan had earlier announced to reporters, but which Tehran itself never officially confirmed.

The confusion around Raisi's visit underscores the tensions that linger between the two regional powers despite their joint views on the Israel-Hamas war.

The Turkish presidency told AFP that Erdogan had no meetings planned for Tuesday, with later reports suggesting the summit had been postponed.

This is despite Erdogan personally announcing the Iranian president's first official visit to Turkey on his return flight from a summit between regional leaders in Riyadh on November 11 that was also attended by Raisi.

The visit was also announced by Turkey's state media and discussed heavily on television as late as Monday.

But it was never officially confirmed by Raisi's office or announced by Iran's media.

The release of more hostages by Hamas to Israel last night saw officials agree to extend their ceasefire by another two days as both parties continue to negotiate terms to free yet more captees.

But hopes that Hamas could eventually return all hostages to Israel without issue were dashed last night when it emerged that as many as 40 people taken during the ruthless October 7 attacks - including ten-month-old Kfir Bibas - are no longer under the captivity of the Palestinian group.

IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee yesterday declared Kfir, his four-year-old brother Ariel and mother Shiri had been taken to Khan Younis in southern Gaza and handed to elements of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

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Israel's bombardment and ground offensive have displaced more than 1.8 million people, nearly 80% of Gaza's population, with most having sought refuge in the south, according to the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs.

Israeli troops have barred people from returning to the north during the cease-fire.

Hundreds of thousands of people have packed into UN-run schools and other facilities, with many forced to sleep on the streets outside because of overcrowding. It's unclear where they would go if Israel expands its ground operation, as Egypt has refused to accept refugees and Israel has sealed its border.

It is feared Israel will expand its offensive if or when the temporary truce currently in place ends.

The hostages freed from Gaza have mostly stayed out of the public eye, but details of their captivity have started to emerge.

In one of the first interviews with a freed hostage, 78-year-old Ruti Munder told Israel's Channel 13 television that she was initially fed well in captivity but that conditions worsened as shortages took hold.

She said she was kept in a 'suffocating' room and slept on plastic chairs with a sheet for nearly 50 days.

Yesterday, we looked at what had been said so far about the conditions that hostages inside Gaza were kept in by the Hamas terror group.

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Good morning and welcome to MailOnline's liveblog covering the on-going war between Israel and Hamas, which today entered its 53rd day.

A truce between the two sides entered its fifth day today after an agreement was struck on Monday to extend it until the end of Wednesday.

Hamas has promised to release more hostages in exchange for the release Palestinian prisoners, and to delay the resumption of the war.

The terror group released 11 more hostages last night. However, Israel said Hamas had handed ten-month-old Kfir Bibas to a separate Palestinian terror group in the southern city of Khan Younis. You can read the full story here.

After four groups of hostages were released over the last four days, Hamas and other terror groups are still holding about 160 people in Gaza, out of the 240 seized in their October 7 assault into southern Israel that ignited the war.

Israel's retaliatory ground and air operation in Gaza has killed almost 15,000 people, mostly civilians, according to the territory's Hamas government.

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