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Ceasefire Holds as Israel Starts Prisoner Transfers, Hostage Handover Expected Sunday Night–Monday

International monitors are on the ground to oversee a fragile truce.

Overview

  • Israeli authorities have concentrated about 250 security detainees, including many serving life sentences, at Ketziot and Ofer prisons for release under the deal.
  • Hamas is assembling the hostages for a handover expected between Sunday night and Monday morning, with a 72-hour deadline set for Monday at noon local time.
  • About 200 U.S. personnel have arrived to help supervise the ceasefire, CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper is in Israel, and President Trump is scheduled to attend the handover and a Cairo signing.
  • Hamas states that full disarmament is nonnegotiable and is moving to reassert control in Gaza, with reports of 7,000 security men recalled and new governors appointed.
  • Humanitarian operations are restarting under the truce, with the UN authorized to resume deliveries, initial aid trucks entering, Rafah expected to reopen for civilian movement midweek, and roughly 500,000 displaced residents returning to assess damage.