Actual.: 13.10.2025 00:24
Issued: 13.10.2025, 00:15
Gaza/Tel Aviv/Sharm Aš -Shajch (Egypt) – In the early morning, the gaza is expected to release all 20 living hostages and restore at least some bodies of 28 dead hostages. Israel is to release almost 2000 detained Palestinian prisoners. Shortly after 9:00 local time (8:00 CEST), US President Donald Trump is supposed to arrive in Tel Aviv. After meeting hostages and speech in parliament, it will fly to the Egyptian resort of Sharm Aš-Shajch. There he will participate in the ceremonial signature of the agreement to end the war in the Gaza Strip and the Peace Summit, which is to arrive more than twenty Arabic and European statesmen.
Information about the time when the hostage could be discharged. The Times of Israel (Toi) wrote today that the Israeli government reported the hostage families, that the release is expected on Monday between 4:00 and 6:00 local time, ie 3:00 to 5:00 CEST. Later in the evening, however, the server wrote that the Israeli army does not know exactly when the hostages will be released, but that it assumes morning hours, maybe 8:00 (7:00 CEST). Hamas confirmed on Sunday that the preparations for the release were completed. There are 48 hostages in the Gaza band, 20 of which are still alive. The live hostages Hamas and its allies will hand over to representatives of the Red Cross, who will transport them to the Israeli army location inside the Gaza zone, where the army transports them to the Reim base in Israel. At the base, according to AFP, hostages will meet their families and will then be transported to hospitals.
Hamas and other Palestinian factions are also to return the bodies of 28 dead hostages, one of which is a soldier killed during one of the previous wars in 2014. Their identity will be confirmed by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv. The international team will be searching for the remains of those that will not be returned today.
Israel will release 250 life -sentenced Palestinians and approximately 1700 Palestinians arrested in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war in October 2023. According to the Israeli press, all prisoners have already been driven to two Israeli prisons. Of the 250 prisoners, according to the Toi 115, they will return to the occupied West Bank and to the occupied eastern Jerusalem, while another 135 will be sent to the Gaza Strip or deported abroad. The question is whether seven Palestinian leaders, whose liberation Hamas demanded on Sunday, will be among the released. Among others, it should be Marván Barghúti, who is a member of the Fatah movement, which stands in opposition to Hamas, the head of the People’s Front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Saadát, and Hamas from the occupied Ibrahi Hamid and Abbas Sajjid.
The war was over, US President Donald Trump replied today to the question of journalists if he was sure that the conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement was over. The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will last and the Peace Council supervising the band administration will be established soon, according to Reuters Trump, he said on board the presidential special Air Force One.
At 9:20 local time (8:20 CEST), Trump arrives in Tel Aviv and, according to the White House, will briefly meet relatives of hostages and then at 11:00 (10:00 CEST) will present a speech in Kneset. According to Toi, Trump can visit some of the hostages in one of the hospitals, “if the conditions permits”. Already at 13:00 (12:00 CEST) will fly to charm Aš-Šajchu.
Here he will participate in the ceremonial signature of the agreement on the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, which he pushed with his peace plan. Trump will also co-chair the peace summit in the charm of Aš-Shajch, on which the Guaranti of Trump’s plan to express their consent to the general principles of the 20-point plan of the plan. Guarantors are the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. At 17:00 (16:00 CEST) Trump, according to the White House, will fly back to the US.
