Today’s events highly choreographed by Hamaspublished at 10:17 Greenwich Mean Time
Nick Beake
Reporting from Jerusalem

Unlike last weekend’s chaotic hostage handover in Gaza, today events were highly choreographed by Hamas.
The four young women emerged from cars to be shepherded by masked gunmen onto the carefully set-up stage, where moments earlier a Red Cross official had signed documents with a Hamas fighter.
The hostages were seen to be wearing lanyards round their necks holding laminated ID badges – as were the masked gunmen standing next to them, each with their own sort of accreditation for the event.
Next to the platform with its desk, chairs and flags there was a machine gun. A display of bureaucracy and bullets for the cameras.
With hundreds of Hamas fighters and Palestinians civilians looking at them, the four Israeli women were seen to be smiling, holding hands and waving. Who knows what they were really thinking in this caldron of emotion as their 15 months anguish was finally coming to an end.
Hamas – which had given each of the women documents and a bag of items to take with them – hopes these calibrated images projects order as well as strength. The intended recipients of the message will surely be Palestinians hoping to run Gaza one day, and Prime Minister Netanyahu, who had vowed to destroy the group in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks.
For Israelis, there is huge relief that another four hostages are safe. Last week, many felt fury that the first three women released were unceremoniously bunded away.
Today, with wildly contrasting scenes, there will also be anger – but this time at the public parading of the women in their final moments before being given their freedom.