Overview

• Israel’s military says the truce began at noon Friday local time, with forces repositioned to agreed lines while some units remain inside Gaza to pressure Hamas.
• A 72-hour window for transfers is underway to release about 48 hostages, including roughly 20 believed alive, in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners with about 250 serving life sentences.
• President Trump says he expects releases on Monday and plans to travel to Israel and Egypt, with an official signing in Cairo under discussion.
• The U.S. will provide about 200 troops as the core of an international monitoring team based outside Gaza alongside partners from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and potentially the UAE.
• Aid access and civilian movement have restarted as Israel reopens key roads, with the UN citing roughly 170,000 tonnes of relief staged regionally and large return flows into northern Gaza reported.