Hamas hands over 7 Israeli hostages to Red Cross

Hamas has handed implicit 7 surviving Israeli hostages to Red Cross.

Earlier, a Red Cross convoy was connected its mode to prime up a archetypal radical of Israeli hostages to beryllium freed by Hamas arsenic portion of a Gaza ceasefire deal, the Israeli subject said Monday.

US President Donald Trump has departed connected a travel to Israel and Egypt, wherever helium volition co-host a Gaza bid acme with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The pursuing are the latest cardinal developments:

Hostage-prisoner exchange

The Gaza bid woody hinges connected some sides adhering to an statement to speech hostages seized from Israel successful Hamas’s October 7, 2023 onslaught for Palestinians held successful Israeli jails.

The archetypal signifier of the ceasefire woody includes the merchandise of 47 Israeli surviving and dormant hostages taken connected October 7, 2023 successful speech for 250 prisoners and 1,700 Gazans held by Israel since the warfare broke out.

Hamas is besides expected to manus implicit the remains of a worker killed successful 2014 during a erstwhile Gaza war.

Hamas’s equipped helping connected Monday confirmed that it was preparing to merchandise the surviving hostages and published a database of 20 names and soon afterwards, Israel’s subject said the Red Cross was connected its mode to prime up the archetypal Gaza hostages.

An service connection said the handover would instrumentality spot astatine “a gathering constituent successful the bluish Gaza Strip wherever respective hostages volition beryllium transferred”.

Israel expects each 20 surviving hostages to beryllium released to the Red Cross “early Monday morning”, according to a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, up of a midday (0900 GMT) deadline nether the presumption of the ceasefire statement projected by Trump.

Netanyahu’s spokesperson said the prisoners would beryllium “released erstwhile Israel has confirmation that each of our hostages acceptable to beryllium released time are crossed the borderline into Israel”.

Israel does not expect each of the dormant hostages to beryllium returned connected Monday.

Gaza summit

Trump and Sisi volition seat the Gaza bid acme of much than 20 satellite leaders connected Monday successful Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh.

The gathering aims “to extremity the warfare successful the Gaza Strip, heighten efforts to execute bid and stableness successful the Middle East, and usher successful a caller epoch of determination information and stability”, the Egyptian president’s bureau said.

On Sunday, the Egyptian overseas ministry said a “document ending the warfare successful the Gaza Strip” was expected to beryllium signed during the “historic” gathering.

A diplomatic root said mediators the US, Egypt, Qatar and apt Turkey would motion a warrant papers during the summit.

But neither of the warring parties volition attend, with Netanyahu’s bureau saying nary Israeli officials would instrumentality part, pursuing earlier confirmation from Hamas that it would not nonstop representatives.

Among those expected to be are UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Canada volition besides beryllium represented by its Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Egypt has said 21 nations volition instrumentality part, with practice besides expected from the EU and Arab League, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Pakistan, Indonesia, India and Germany, among others.

Iran said Monday that neither its President Masoud Pezeshkian nor overseas curate Abbas Araghchi volition attend, aft confirming that it received an invitation.

Hamas post-war role

A Hamas root adjacent to the group’s negotiating committee told AFP connected Sunday that it would not partici...