Fab news!
However it is advantage Hamas according to this on the BBC news:
"What does Hamas get out of releasing hostages?Peter R. Neumann
Professor of Security Studies, King's College London
The temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas offers breathing space in the ongoing conflict. But it doesn't signal an end to the hostage crisis - or even the beginning of its end. If anything, it provides Hamas with an advantage in what is likely to become a drawn-out, open-ended drama.
The release of dozens of elderly, women and child hostages over the coming days is going to be greeted with huge relief by Israelis.
It means Hamas will continue to hold more than 150 hostages but for them, this may turn out to be more advantageous than the larger number.
For one, the nearly 240 hostages originally taken probably imposed a huge burden on the organisation. Hostages need to be constantly looked after, monitored, and - if necessary - moved. If some of them are old, sick, or have special medical needs, it makes things more complicated.
By "getting rid" of anyone requiring special attention, Hamas is therefore not displaying compassion, but primarily freeing up resources that are needed elsewhere. This is especially true for an estimated two dozen labourers from Thailand and Nepal who hold no strategic value to Hamas, because they are neither Israeli nor Jewish.
Another reason is that the remaining hostages are easier to portray as "legitimate", because they are mostly Israeli soldiers or men of fighting age.
Hamas will argue that they are "enemy combatants" - even Prisoners of War.
Crucially, this will increase pressure on the Netanyahu government to agree to a prisoner swap.
Just like in the past, when Israel agreed to release hundreds - on one occasion: over a thousand - Palestinians in return for small numbers of Israeli soldiers, Hamas will demand the freeing of thousands of its members that are currently in Israeli prisons."