(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump says the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza may be released as soon as Monday, under a peace plan the White House helped broker between Israel and Hamas.

Trump offered that timeline Wednesday on Fox News and in a phone call with the families of hostages.

A total of 20 Israeli hostages are believed to be alive in Gaza, while Hamas holds the bodies of an additional 28 Israelis in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. In exchange for the release of hostages, Israel was expected to free Palestinian prisoners and begin withdrawing from the majority of Gaza.

Questions remained whether longer-term aspects of the U.S.-brokered peace deal — including the disarming of Hamas and a different political body to govern Palestinians — will come to fruition. But for now

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