Oct 10, 2025, 6:14 PM EDT
US troops have arrived in Israel
U.S. troops have begun to arrive in Israel as part of their work to support and oversee the ceasefire agreement, a person familiar with their work told ABC News.
-ABC News' Anne Flaherty
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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.
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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Oct 10, 2025, 1:20 PM EDT
Aid organizations call for massive scale-up of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza
The International Rescue Committee and Doctors Without Borders both called for increased amounts of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza immediately on Friday now that the first phase of the ceasefire deal has been agreed upon and gone into effect.
The IRC said they have "more than 5 tons of life-saving medical supplies," ready and waiting to enter Gaza as soon as it is allowed.
"After months of a near-total Israeli siege, the most basic necessities are still urgently needed in Gaza: medical equipment, medicines, food, water, fuel, and adequate shelter for 2 million people who will face the approaching winter without roofs over their heads," Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Friday.
"This ceasefire must be accompanied by an immediate massive and sustained scale-up of aid into and across the Strip, including the north," the organization added.
-ABC News' Nadine Shubailat
Oct 10, 2025, 1:17 PM EDT
ICRC teams in Israel, Gaza and West Bank will support implementation of ceasefire
International Committee of the Red Cross teams in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank "will support," the implementation of the ceasefire agreement "by helping to return hostages and detainees to their families," ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement on Friday.
The ICRC teams are also "prepared to bring more lifesaving aid into the Gaza Strip," Spoljaric said.
"The coming days are critical. I urge the parties to hold to their commitments. Release operations must be carried out safely and with dignity. Humanitarian assistance must resume urgently at full capacity and be delivered to people safely wherever they are. The ceasefire must hold. Lives depend on it," Spoljaric added.
Oct 10, 2025, 1:13 PM EDT
Israel warns people in Gaza not to approach IDF troops
The Israel Defense Forces warned residents in Gaza not to approach IDF troops "until further notice," IDF Arab media spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a Friday X post.
"Approaching the forces puts you at risk," Adraee said in the post.
"These are moments of heightened alert," IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin said during a briefing with reporters Friday, warning "IDF soldiers will act to remove any threat to their security," inside of Gaza along the redeployment lines where they are now positioned.
"At this time our troops under Southern Command have deployed to the agreed readiness lines, in accordance with this 'yellow line,' these readiness lines provide forward operational defense and control along the Gaza Strip," Defrin said.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
