Overview

• Under the first phase of the U.S.-brokered plan, Hamas says it will start freeing 48 hostages Monday morning, triggering Israel’s release of roughly 2,000 Palestinian detainees, including about 250 serving long sentences.
• Egypt confirms a Sharm el-Sheikh summit Monday co-presided by President Trump and President Sissi with leaders from more than 20 countries, while Hamas will not attend and Israel’s prime minister has not confirmed participation.
• The ceasefire that took effect Friday has held so far, with Israeli forces partially redeployed and more than 500,000 displaced Palestinians reported returning to northern Gaza as humanitarian deliveries scale up.
• Hamas officials publicly reject disarmament as ‘out of the question,’ even as Israel’s defense minister orders the army to prepare to destroy all remaining Hamas tunnels after the hostage releases under a U.S.-supervised mechanism.
• A Hamas-linked source says the movement will not govern Gaza after the war and backs a transitional technocratic committee proposed through mediators, though core second-phase terms remain unsettled.