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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.
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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Ceasefire talks underway in Egypt: Sources
The first round of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are underway in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to two sources familiar with the talks.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
Israel killing an average of 92 Gaza residents per day, media office says
An average of 92 Palestinians have been killed each day in Israel Defense Forces attacks on the Gaza Strip across the 730 days since Oct. 7, 2023, according to a Monday statement from the Government Media Office in the Hamas-run territory.
Tuesday will mark the two-year anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel, which sparked the current conflict. Since then, a total of 67,139 Palestinians have been recorded as killed by IDF attacks, according to Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry data published Sunday.
The media office said that an average of 27 children have been killed each day over the past two years, meaning more than one child per hour, every day for two years.
The media office did not specify how many of the Palestinians killed since October 2023 were militants.
-ABC News' Samy Zyara and Somayeh Malekian
Israeli delegation will travel to Egypt on Monday, sources say
The Israeli delegation for this week's ceasefire talks in Sharm el-Sheikh will depart for Egypt this afternoon, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News on Monday.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
Iran ready to participate in Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan, ministry says
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday expressed its "readiness to participate" in U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed Gaza Strip ceasefire deal, as negotiators gathered in Egypt for talks on its possible implementation.
Iran, which in June was attacked by both Israel and the U.S. in an intense 12-day conflict, has "hope for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid to the oppressed people of Gaza," the statement posted to the ministry's official X account said.
Tehran said there was a "legal and moral responsibility of all governments to support the legitimate and lawful struggle of the Palestinian people to realize their right to self-determination and liberation from the yoke of occupation, apartheid and colonialism" by Israel.
Any end to the war "does not negate the responsibility of governments and competent international institutions to pursue legal and judicial action" against Israel, the statement said, "nor the identification and prosecution of those who ordered and carried out war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip."
The ministry also said there are "dangerous dimensions and aspects of this proposal," warning of what it called "repeated breaches and obstructionism" by Israel in past ceasefire efforts.