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Israel-Gaza live updates: Hamas publishes names of 20 living Israeli hostages to be released

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Friday.

ByDavid Brennan, Meredith Deliso, Nadine El-Bawab, and Kevin Shalvey
Last Updated: October 13, 2025, 12:42 AM EDT

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.

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Here's how the news is developing.
Oct 09, 2025, 12:25 PM EDT

All remaining hostages should be released Monday or Tuesday, Trump says

President Donald Trump said Israel and Hamas "reached a momentous breakthrough" agreement on Wednesday, saying "We ended the war in Gaza."

All remaining hostages held by Hamas will be released on Monday or Tuesday, Trump said, speaking at a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday. This includes the remains of 28 dead hostages, Trump said.

Israeli soldiers work on a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Oct. 9, 2025, following the announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan to pause the fighting.
Ariel Schalit/AP

Gaza is going to be "slowly redone" with support from Arab states, Trump said.

Trump called the Oct. 7 attack "terrible," but acknowledged the deaths of 70,000 Palestinians -- calling it "big retribution" for Hamas.

Trump said he will be "leaving very soon" for the Middle East, saying a signing ceremony will be held in Egypt.  

"We're gonna end up having peace in the Middle East, who would've thought," he said. 

Oct 09, 2025, 11:58 AM EDT

Israel postpones cabinet meeting to ratify the ceasefire proposal

Israel's cabinet has postponed the meeting to ratify the ceasefire proposal until 8 p.m. local time, 1 p.m. ET, on Thursday. The first vote to ratify the deal was initially scheduled for 5 p.m. local time, 10 a.m. ET.

The second vote made by the Israeli government was scheduled for 6 p.m. local time, 11 a.m. ET.

An Israeli military vehicle manoeuvres, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, October 9, 2025.
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The ratification of the deal will usher in the 72-hour window for Hamas to release all the living hostages and for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners, according to an Israeli official.

Oct 09, 2025, 6:28 AM EDT

10 killed over past 24 hours in Gaza, health ministry says

The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said Thursday that 10 people were killed over the previous 24 hours, with 49 people injured.

Displaced Palestinian children run behind a man pushing his bicycle on the sand at sunrise at a makeshift camp by the beach in Al-Zawayda city, near Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on Oct. 9, 2025.
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its hospital was treating at least two people injured in southern Gaza.

The total death toll now stands at 67,194 people killed since Oct. 7, 2023, with 169,890 people injured, according to the health ministry.

Since the end of the last ceasefire in March of this year, 13,598 people have been killed, per ministry figures.

-ABC News' Diaa Ostaz and Victoria Beaule

Oct 09, 2025, 5:57 AM EDT

Explosions across Gaza as ceasefire agreement nears

There were reports of large explosions across the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the Israeli government prepared to ratify a ceasefire deal to end the fighting.

A smoke plume billows following Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip as pictured from across the border in southern Israel on Oct. 9, 2025.
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Photos and videos from Gaza showed large explosions in the center and south of the devastated strip.

A ceasefire is expected to come into effect some time after the Israeli government votes on the agreement at around 6 p.m. local time -- 11 a.m. ET. The government is expected to vote in favor of the proposal.

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

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