Overview

• Hamas is expected to begin handing over about 48 hostages, including around 20 believed alive, in the early hours Monday under ICRC supervision, with Israel set to free 250 life‑sentence prisoners and roughly 1,700 Gaza detainees after medical checks and reception procedures.
• Operational plans call for ICRC convoys to collect hostages inside Gaza, transfer them to Israeli military custody, process them at the Re’im base, then airlift them to hospitals for full evaluation and reunions.
• President Abdel Fattah al‑Sisi and President Donald Trump will co‑chair a Sharm El‑Sheikh summit with leaders from more than 20 countries and the UN chief to endorse guarantor documents, with the United States, Egypt, Qatar and possibly Turkey as signatories; Iran will not attend, and Israel and Hamas are not participating.
• Hamas sources say the group will not join transitional governance in Gaza and rejects disarmament, while pressing for seven senior Palestinian figures to be included on Israel’s release list; Israel has been refining detainee rolls, with Channel 12 reporting 1,718 slated for release.
• Trump, en route to Israel and Egypt, said the Gaza war is over and the ceasefire will hold, while Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu credited the military with “huge victories” but cautioned that the battle is not yet finished; the UK announced £20 million for Gaza water and sanitation and plans a reconstruction conference.