Overview

• Hamas says releases will begin Monday morning, with Israel expecting all 20 living hostages to be handed to the Red Cross together, followed by the return of 28 bodies.
• Israel published a list of 250 prisoners to be freed that omits high‑profile figures such as Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat, as talks continue over final names and the sequencing of roughly 1,700 additional detainees.
• President Donald Trump is traveling to Israel to meet hostage families and address the Knesset before co‑chairing a Sharm el‑Sheikh summit with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al‑Sisi; Hamas will not attend, and Israeli officials are not expected at the summit, according to Reuters.
• The pause has entered day three to four with mass civilian returns to northern Gaza, expanded aid access including cooking gas, and UN‑coordinated plans to deliver up to 170,000 tonnes of supplies if the truce holds, though some convoys faced looting in Khan Yunis.
• Israel’s defense minister ordered preparations to destroy Hamas’s tunnel network after the exchange under a U.S.-led mechanism, while Hamas sources told AFP the group will not govern post‑war Gaza and rejects full disarmament, offering only a long‑term truce.