The IDF are preparing to welcome the hostages after a ceasefire agreement was reached

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🤝Stay updated on the upcoming Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage exchange

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is set to begin at 06:30 GMT on Sunday. Here’s an update regarding the hostage exchange part of the deal:

What is Hamas doing?

🔹 The Palestinian movement has been delaying the transfer of a list of hostages to be released for technical reasons, reported Israeli Ynet news outlet.

🔹 Hamas members communicate “physically via emissaries and it takes time to agree on the names and the location of the hostages when [Israeli military] planes are still above them,” a source told Ynet.

🔹 Thirty-three of the 98 remaining Israeli hostages are expected to be freed by Hamas, while Israel is to set free almost 2,000 jailed Palestinians in the first phase of the deal.

🔹 Hamas is expected to release three living female captives in exchange for 95 Palestinians, most of them women and children, on Sunday, Al Jazeera reported.

What is Israel doing?

🟠 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that his country would not move forward with the deal until Hamas supplies the list of hostages.

🟠 Israel has also reserved the right to resume fighting if the deal falls apart.

🟠 As part of the deal, the Israeli military in Rafah has begun withdrawing from the center of the city towards the Philadelphi Corridor, located on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported.

🟠 Israeli forces carried out several attacks last night, striking Gaza City in the north, Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat in the center, and Rafah and Khan Younis in the south, Al Jazeera reported.

🟠 Israel is expected to ease its blockade of Gaza, and allow in 600 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to meet with Netanyahu “fairly shortly,” and warned that the ceasefire and hostage deal had “better hold,” NBC reported.

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❗️The Israeli military has begun withdrawing its Givati and Nahal brigades from the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s Channel 12 posted on X

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⚡️Ceasefire begins in the Gaza Strip

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire officially began at 06:30 GMT.

From this point forward, military operations on both sides are temporarily halted under the terms of the agreement.

❗️The first phase of the ceasefire will last 42 days, during which 33 Israeli hostages are set to be released.

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🟠 Stay updated on the upcoming Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage exchange

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Israel recovers soldier’s body held in Gaza since 2014

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the return of the body of Oron Shaul, a soldier killed during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge.

The recovery was made possible through a special operation conducted by the Shin Bet and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) just before the ceasefire came into effect.

Shaul’s body had been held in Gaza since 2014.

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❗️Israel has just received a list of hostages from Hamas, Netanyahu's office advisor told Sputnik.

Hamas' military wing announced its decision to release three hostages on Sunday as part of the exchange deal.

"A decision was made today to release three female hostages: Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher," a spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Ubaida, stated.

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