Overview

• Hamas says it will begin handing over the remaining 48 Israeli hostages on Monday morning, meeting a deadline that covers both living captives and returned remains.
• Israel plans to release about 2,000 Palestinian detainees, including roughly 250 security prisoners and 1,700 Gazans held during the war, while high-profile figures such as Marwan Barghouti remain excluded as negotiators haggle over the final list.
• President Donald Trump will address Israel’s Knesset before co‑chairing a Sharm el‑Sheikh summit with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al‑Sisi, with leaders from more than 20 countries expected and neither Israel nor Hamas participating in the gathering.
• Aid deliveries are scaling up with expectations of up to 600 trucks a day and UN agencies readying 170,000 tonnes of relief, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians return to devastated areas and some distributions face chaotic, desperate scenes.
• Under the plan’s early steps, Israeli forces have redeployed from major urban centers, a U.S.-backed coordination center with up to 200 U.S. troops in Israel is being set up for stabilization support, and Israel’s defense minister says the military is preparing to dismantle remaining Hamas tunnels after the exchange.