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Twenty Israeli hostages held by Hamas are expected to be released early on Monday local time, ahead of a visit by Donald Trump.

They are expected to be freed in two stages from about 4pm AEDT, which is earlier than first floated.

Hamas and other factions will first transfer the 20 hostages who are still alive to the International Committee of the Red Cross, possibly releasing them from multiple points inside the Gaza Strip, officials said.

The ICRC will then hand the hostages over to Israeli authorities, while “later in the day, we are expecting to receive the bodies of those who have been murdered in captivity,” an Israeli military official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity so he could freely discuss the sensitive details of the

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