Freed Palestinian prisoners are welcomed in Ramallah
Freed Palestinian prisoners arrived to a cheering crowd in Ramallah. Relatives hugged the freed detainees, and some carried some of them on their shoulders.
First bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives in Gaza
Hamas prisoners' media office said the first bus carrying Palestinian prisoners had now arrived in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said the remaining 13 living hostages released by Hamas had crossed the border into Israel.
Trump suggests Hamas has approval for Gaza security
In remarks made during his flight, Trump suggested Hamas had been given a greenlight for internal security operations it is conducting in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian group, which must disarm and end its rule of Gaza under Trump's proposal for ending the war, has deployed internal security forces in parts of the Gaza Strip since a ceasefire came into effect on Friday.
Hamas says it aims to stop lawlessness and looting and prevent a security vacuum.
Asked by a journalist aboard Air Force One about reports that Hamas was instituting itself as a police force and shooting rivals, Trump said "they do want to stop the problems, and they've been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time".
"You have close to 2 million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. So we want it to be - we want it to be safe. I think it's going to be fine. Who knows for sure," Trump said.
The Israeli military says it has received the remaining 13 hostages
That means all 20 living hostages have now been released by Hamas under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
Second set of hostages transferred to Red Cross, official says
The official involved in the operation said the 13 remaining living hostages had been transferred from Hamas' armed wing to the Red Cross in Gaza.
Red Cross convoy is waiting at second hostage exchange point
The convoy is in southern Gaza ahead of the expected second release of the Israeli hostages by Hamas' armed wing, according to an official involved in the operation.
EU to resume Rafah border control mission
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that the European Union will resume its monitoring mission at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
"Securing peace in Gaza will be extraordinarily complex," Kallas said in a post on X.
"The EU stands ready to do its part. On Wednesday, it will restart a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt."
UN aid chief: Food reaches Gaza and more on the way
Aid workers have started distributing hot meals and bread in north and south Gaza, and deliveries of cooking gas have entered the enclave, UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said on Monday.
The "humanitarian scale-up in Gaza is well underway," Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, wrote on X.
Aid groups had secured Israeli approval to send in more aid, bringing the amount in their cleared pipeline to 190,000 metric tons, including food, shelter items, medicine and other supplies, he added.
"This is just beginning," Fletcher said. "As part of our plan for first 60 days of ceasefire, UN and our partners will expand scale and scope of our operations to get life-saving aid and services to people everywhere across Gaza."
"We are determined to deliver. Thank you to everyone involved."
Netanyahu and Trump head for the Knesset
Trump, Netanyahu and Herzog walked a red carpet from Air Force One to the US president's waiting limousine as a band played.
Netanyahu rode in the limousine with Trump and the two leaders were seen through passenger windows speaking as the vehicle departed for the Knesset.
Trump arrives in Israel
Netanyahu waits to greet Trump
As Air Force One taxied, Netanyahu smiled and laughed as he spoke with Trump ally and US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughter Ivanka Trump and Steve Witkoff, who was involved in negotiating the ceasefire, were there as well, along with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Israeli ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter.
Qatar, Egypt and Turkey are putting pressure on Hamas to disarm, Germany says
The German foreign ministry said that Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and other Arab states are putting pressure on Hamas in Gaza to disarm.
"All these states don't want Hamas to be active. They want disarmament and in this respect we have a good pressure scenario, because it won't work without pressure," Minister Johann Wadephul told Deutschlandfunk radio.
The hostages have been handed over to the Israeli military
A military source said the Red Cross had now transferred the Israeli hostages.
Tears and applause as loved ones watch release
Well wishers gathered at dawn in the northern town Lavon, home to the hostage Alon Ohel, to watch a livestream of the hostages release.
Community members made bread, clapped, and sang as they waited.
"I'm very very excited and in anticipation," said Ohel's aunt Nirit Kremer Ohel.
He is a piano player and she said his family had not closed his instrument since he left for the Nova music festival on October 7th.
"His piano at home is still waiting, it's open ... His mother decided to leave it open and put some fabric on it so she will not close it, only Alon will when he will be back home," she said.
Palestinian detainees have boarded buses at Israeli prisons
All 1,966 prisoners expected to be released on Monday have now boarded buses, an official involved in the operation said.
Of those, 250 are due to be released to the West Bank, Jerusalem and other countries, while 1,716 are expected to be released at Gaza's Nasser Hospital.
The first Israeli hostages have been transferred, an official says
According to the official involved in the operation, seven Israeli hostages were handed to the Red Cross in Gaza by Hamas.
Red Cross to carry out transfer of hostages and detainees
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said its teams will receive hostages held in Gaza and transfer them to Israeli authorities.
In a separate operation, ICRC teams will transfer Palestinian detainees held in Israeli detention centers to Gaza and the West Bank.
"These operations are highly complex and require meticulous logistical and security planning to minimize risks to all involved," it said in a statement.
The ICRC will also facilitate the transfer of human remains, it added.
Since October 2023, the ICRC has facilitated the release and transfer of 148 hostages and 1,931 detainees, it said.
Hamas publishes names of 20 Israeli hostages to be released
Palestinian group Hamas published on Monday the names of the 20 Israeli hostages to be released under the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel.
The names included Bar Abraham Kupershtein, Evyatar David, Yosef-Chaim Ohana, Segev Kalfon, Avinatan Or, Elkana Bohbot, Maxim Herkin, Nimrod Cohen, Matan Angrest, Matan Zangauker, Eitan Horn, Eitan Abraham Mor, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman, Omri Miran, Alon Ohel, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Rom Braslavski, Ariel Cunio and David Cunio.
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