Overview

• Twenty surviving hostages were transferred to the Red Cross and returned to Israel for medical assessment, ending more than two years in captivity.
• Israel said it freed more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners under the deal’s first phase, including hundreds serving long sentences.
• Hamas said it would transfer only four of the 28 deceased hostages’ bodies, prompting condemnation from Israeli officials and families.
• The fates of Bipin Joshi and Tamir Nimrodi remain unclear after neither appeared on the list of 20 living hostages released.
• A mediators’ task force with the ICRC is overseeing implementation as part of a U.S.-brokered 20-point plan that Hamas has rejected in key areas.