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.
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.
Red Cross vehicles were seen in Khan Younis and are expected to pick up Palestinian prisoners that the Israelis will release Monday morning.
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:
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.
An average of 92 Palestinians have been killed each day in Israel Defense Forces attacks on the Gaza Strip across the 730 days since Oct. 7, 2023, according to a Monday statement from the Government Media Office in the Hamas-run territory.
Tuesday will mark the two-year anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel, which sparked the current conflict. Since then, a total of 67,139 Palestinians have been recorded as killed by IDF attacks, according to Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry data published Sunday.
The media office said that an average of 27 children have been killed each day over the past two years, meaning more than one child per hour, every day for two years.
The media office did not specify how many of the Palestinians killed since October 2023 were militants.
-ABC News' Samy Zyara and Somayeh Malekian
