Overview

• With Israel’s initial redeployment complete, a 72-hour window is underway for Hamas to hand over 48 captives by Monday noon local time under the first-phase truce.
• Israel is set to free roughly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and officials caution that about 20 hostages are believed alive and some remains may not be recoverable; the prison service has moved exchange detainees to designated facilities.
• U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper visited Gaza to verify compliance and plan a stabilization task force, with U.S. troops not entering the enclave.
• Trump is scheduled to meet hostage families and address the Knesset before chairing a Sharm el‑Sheikh summit with more than 20 leaders to formalize next steps in the peace plan.
• As the ceasefire holds, crowds in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square expressed gratitude to U.S. mediators, Palestinians streamed back to devastated neighborhoods, and aid agencies prepared major deliveries awaiting Israeli clearance.