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.
The Israel Defense Forces warned residents in Gaza not to approach IDF troops "until further notice," IDF Arab media spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a Friday X post.
"Approaching the forces puts you at risk," Adraee said in the post.
"These are moments of heightened alert," IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin said during a briefing with reporters Friday, warning "IDF soldiers will act to remove any threat to their security," inside of Gaza along the redeployment lines where they are now positioned.
"At this time our troops under Southern Command have deployed to the agreed readiness lines, in accordance with this 'yellow line,' these readiness lines provide forward operational defense and control along the Gaza Strip," Defrin said.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
