Overview

• Hamas has formally agreed to free ten living Israeli hostages and return nine bodies under the U.S.-brokered 60-day truce proposal.
• Indirect negotiations in Doha remain underway with mediators from the United States, Qatar and Egypt seeking agreement on humanitarian access and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
• The European Union and Israel have sealed a pact to open additional border crossings and substantially increase aid truck deliveries into Gaza.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he sees strong prospects for a truce this week and the IDF chief of staff credited military operations with weakening Hamas to facilitate a hostages deal.
• Israeli airstrikes continue to claim dozens of civilian lives in Gaza, where more than 57,600 people have perished since the war began.