What we know HOSTAGE RELEASE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is ready to receive 48 hostages — 20 of whom are believed to be alive — as part of the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas. Hamas has pledged to release them by tomorrow in exchange for 250 prisoners serving life sentences and 1,700 Palestinians detained after the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. TRUMP TO ISRAEL:

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