{"id":70207,"date":"2025-10-12T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/70207\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:18:08","slug":"israel-expects-to-receive-all-living-captives-from-gaza-on-monday-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/70207\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel expects to receive all living captives from Gaza on Monday | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel says it expects to receive all its remaining living captives from Gaza early on Monday, a key step in the ceasefire now in effect.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Sunday, government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian said Israel anticipates all 20 living captives will be returned together in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n

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As in previous exchanges during the two-year war, the captives will first be handed over to the Red Cross, which will transport them to an Israeli military base inside Gaza for initial medical checks before they proceed to Israel to reunite with their families.<\/p>\n

Once that process is complete, Israel will begin releasing Palestinian prisoners, Bedrosian said. They will be freed \u201conce Israel has confirmation that all of our hostages set to be released tomorrow are across the border into Israel\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the ceasefire, Israel is to release about 2,000 Palestinians<\/a> it holds in detention, many without charge. The prisoners include 250 Palestinians serving life sentences. Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, whose release Palestinians have long sought, will not be among them, Israel has said. Some detainees will be released in the occupied West Bank, where relatives have been instructed by Israel not to hold celebrations or speak to the media.<\/p>\n

Israel is also preparing to receive the bodies of 28 captives confirmed to have died in captivity, Bedrosian said.<\/p>\n

\"AA billboard in Tel Avivi shows an image of US President Donald Trump during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas [Hannah McKay\/Reuters]\u2018Trump\u2019s show\u2019<\/p>\n

The planned exchange<\/a> comes three days after Israel\u2019s government approved the first phase of a deal aimed at ending the war in Gaza \u2013 and just as United States President Donald Trump, who spearheaded the agreement<\/a>, is to visit Israel before a summit in Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is Trump\u2019s show,\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s correspondent Nour Odeh said from Amman, Jordan, because the network is banned from Israel. \u201cHe will be arriving in Israel, meeting with the families of captives, addressing the Knesset and then going to Egypt\u2019s Sharm el-Sheikh, where he has summoned the leaders of more than 20 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the Trump-led agreement, Israeli forces have withdrawn from parts of Gaza, including Gaza City and other northern areas, although they still control more than half of its territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Palestinians returning to combat zones that they were displaced from have found widespread devastation \u2013 \u201cwastelands\u201d where their neighbourhoods once stood, Al Jazeera\u2019s Ibrahim al-Khalili reported from Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Humanitarian aid has begun to trickle into the enclave as part of the ceasefire with dozens of trucks arriving on Sunday. But distribution remains slow for a population that has endured months of extreme deprivation, said Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are not waiting only for food but also for tents, mobile shelters, solar panels and desperately needed medical equipment and medicines \u2013 items largely unavailable for the past two years,\u201d Khoudary reported from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. \u201cMost people have lost their savings, have no access to bank accounts and are completely dependent on humanitarian aid to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaders to convene in Egypt<\/p>\n

The Gaza summit, scheduled for Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, will be co-chaired by Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.<\/p>\n

It is expected to be attended by more than a dozen world leaders, including United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah II and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n

Although both Israel and Hamas said they will not participate, Cairo has hailed the summit as a \u201chistoric\u201d event that will seek \u201cto end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n

Egypt said a \u201cdocument ending the war in the Gaza Strip\u201d is also expected to be signed at the summit.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hard work\u2019 to come<\/p>\n

Despite the ceasefire progress, many details on phase two of the deal \u2013 which is still to be negotiated \u2013 need to be ironed out, including the exact makeup of a post-war administration for Gaza and the fate of Hamas.<\/p>\n

The second phase is expected to involve a phased Israeli withdrawal, Hamas\u2019s disarmament, the establishment of new security and governance arrangements, and reconstruction.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the big day tomorrow for Trump, after the release of the hostages, \u2026 then comes the hard work,\u201d Adnan Hayajneh, professor of international relations at the University of Qatar, told Al Jazeera. \u201cIf you look at the situation in Gaza, it\u2019s like an earthquake happened. \u2026 There\u2019s no government. There\u2019s no schools. There\u2019s nothing there.\u201d<\/p>\n

US Vice President JD Vance appeared to acknowledge on Sunday that the road to stability would be difficult. \u201cIt is going to take consistent leverage and consistent pressure from the president of the United States on down,\u201d he told US broadcaster CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel says it expects to receive all its remaining living captives from Gaza early on Monday, a key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50199,54,5543,50,51,85,46,44,47,43,48],"class_list":["post-70207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abdel-fattah-el-sisi","tag-donald-trump","tag-egypt","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}