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TEL AVIV, Israel (NewsNation) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is acceptable to person each remaining Israeli hostages held successful Gaza, up of Monday's planned speech for Palestinian prisoners nether a ceasefire statement with Hamas.
"Israel is prepared and acceptable to instantly person each of our hostages," Netanyahu said successful a statement.
Israeli officials judge astir 20 of the hostages retired of 48 held by Hamas and different Palestinian factions successful Gaza are inactive alive. All of the surviving hostages are expected to beryllium released Monday.
Trump to sojourn Israel and Egypt
President Donald Trump, who helped broker the ceasefire deal, is expected to get successful Israel Monday morning. He volition conscionable with families of hostages and talk astatine the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, according to a docket released by the White House.
Trump volition past proceed connected to Egypt, wherever the bureau of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has said helium volition co-chair a “peace summit” connected Monday with attendance by determination and planetary leaders.
Timing has not yet been announced for the merchandise of immoderate 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held successful Israel who are to beryllium freed nether the deal. They see 250 radical serving beingness sentences successful summation to 1,700 radical seized from Gaza during the warfare and held without charge.
Humanitarian assistance to increase
Preparations were underway Sunday for a ramp-up of assistance entering the war-battered Gaza Strip that galore are hoping volition awesome an extremity to the devastating 2-year-long warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas.
The Israeli defence assemblage successful complaint of humanitarian assistance successful Gaza, COGAT, said the amount of assistance entering the Palestinian territory is expected to summation connected Sunday to astir 600 trucks per day, arsenic stipulated successful the agreement.
Egypt said it is sending 400 assistance trucks into Gaza Sunday. The trucks volition person to beryllium inspected by Israeli forces earlier being allowed in.
The World Food Program said it was acceptable to reconstruct 145 nutrient organisation points. Before Israel sealed disconnected Gaza successful March, U.N. agencies provided nutrient astatine 400 organisation points.
Though the timeline remains unclear, Palestinians volition beryllium capable to entree nutrient astatine much locations than they could done the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operated 4 locations aft taking implicit organisation successful May.
Some 170,000 metric tons of nutrient assistance person been positioned successful neighboring countries awaiting Israeli permission.
Gaza residents instrumentality home
Palestinians continued to determination backmost to areas vacated by Israeli forces Sunday, though galore were returning to homes reduced to rubble.
The intermission successful warring allowed archetypal responders and residents to hunt antecedently inaccessible areas for bodies buried nether rubble. Health officials said much than 100 bodies were recovered and brought to hospitals betwixt Friday and Saturday.
The warfare began when Hamas-led militants launched a astonishment onslaught connected confederate Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, successful which immoderate 1,200 radical were killed and 250 taken hostage.
In Israel’s ensuing offensive, much than 67,000 Palestinians person been killed successful Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants but says astir fractional the deaths were women and children.
The warfare has destroyed ample swaths of Gaza and displaced astir 90% of its 2 cardinal residents. It has besides triggered different conflicts successful the region, sparked worldwide protests and led to allegations of genocide that Israel denies.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
