A senior Hamas official has confirmed that the release of 48 hostages, mostly Israelis, held in Gaza is scheduled to begin on Monday morning, under the terms of a ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States. “According to the signed agreement, the prisoner exchange is set to begin on Monday morning as agreed, and there are no new developments on this matter,” Osama Hamdan, a top Hamas official, told AFP on Saturday. The phased deal includes the return of the hostages by Palestinian militant groups in Gaza, after which Israel will release approximately 2,000 Palestinian detainees from its prisons as part of the first stage of the agreement. The hostages, most of whom are believed to be Israeli citizens, were captured after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, when the count
Gaza peace summit: Hamas says hostage release to ‘begin on Monday’; Trump

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