“Israel is prepared and ready to immediately receive all of our hostages,” Netanayah said, according to his office.
”Israel is prepared and ready to immediately receive all of our hostages,” Netanayah said, according to his office.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Friday.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that both Israel and Hamas had “signed off” on the first phase of a peace plan in Gaza following negotiations in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh. A ceasefire then came into effect on Friday.
Phase one of the deal will see all remaining hostages returned from Gaza, a number of Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails and the partial withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces inside the strip.
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Hamas publishes list of 20 living Israeli hostages to be released
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Oct 12, 2025, 2:06 PM EDT
‘Tomorrow, sons will return to their borders,’ Netanyahu says
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Oct 12, 2025, 7:14 AM EDT
Here’s how the news is developing.
22 minutes ago
1st exchange will be in Northern Gaza: Security official
The Israel Defense Forces is preparing for the transfer and return of the hostages as part of the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the coming morning hours, a security official told ABC News.
26 minutes ago
Red Cross vehicles in Khan Younis ahead of hostages and prisoners swap
Red Cross vehicles were seen in Khan Younis and are expected to pick up Palestinian prisoners that the Israelis will release Monday morning.
34 minutes ago
Hamas publishes list of 20 living Israeli hostages to be released
Hamas published a list of the 20 living Israeli hostages set to be released around 7 a.m. local time, Monday morning.
The names are:
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- Bar Avraham Kuperstein
- Aviatar David
- Yosef Haim Ohana
- Segev Kalfon
- Avinatan Or
- Elkana Bohbot
- Maxim Herkin
- Nimrod Cohen
- Matan Zangauker
- David Konio
- Eitan Horn
- Matan Angrist
- Eitan Mor
- Gali Berman
- Ziv Berman
- Omri Miran
- Alon Ohel
- Guy Gilboa-Dalal
- Rom Braslavsky
- Ariel Konio
Oct 12, 2025, 2:18 PM EDT
‘I will not rest until I bring back your loved ones’
In his nationally televised address Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said he and his wife “met many times with the families of the kidnapped. We saw their pain, their longing, their tears.”
“These meetings accompanied me in every decision I made during the war,” Netanyahu said. “We hugged the families, and I promised them: ‘I will not rest until I bring back your loved ones.'”
“Tomorrow is the beginning of a new path,” Netanyahu added, in part. “A path of construction, a path of healing and, I hope, a path of uniting hearts.
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