It’s been a really up-and-down time for the families of the hostages and for Palestinians waiting for three times as many people to be released from Israeli jails.
On the first day everything is going according to plan. At 2:00 PM GMT, 13 Israeli hostages will be released and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They will then go to Egypt for medical checks before going back to Israel to be with their families.
Israel will let go of 39 Palestinian prisoners once they have them. This will happen over the next three days.
After that, there might be a longer break from fighting if Hamas lets go of 10 hostages each day.
Yesterday there was a problem with the numbers and lists not matching, but now everything seems okay.
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Hostage-prisoner exchange scheme going well so far
