As Israel and Hamas implement the first phase of a Gaza peace plan, questions remain unanswered over what comes next.

Shadi Abu Sido said his world shattered in Israeli detention when guards told him his wife and two children had been killed in the Gaza war. “I got hysterical,” the Gaza Palestinian photographer said.

Israel received two more deceased hostages' bodies, including that of Inbar Hayman, who was considered to be the last female hostage in Gaza.

As the delicate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes hold, some aid has begun flowing into the Gaza Strip, where many Palestinians are returning home and beginning to reckon with the destruction caused by the two-year conflict.

Follow live updates as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released. Presidents Trump and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi are expected to meet with other leaders in Egypt to discuss Gaza’s future.

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars.

Hamas released all 20 of the last living hostages on Monday, the Israeli military said, as part of a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war between Israel and Hamas in the devastated Gaza Strip.

Firefights and public executions have spread fear and raised concerns about a spiral of internecine violence. “I could hear gunfire all around.”

During the attack on October 7, Hamas terrorists reportedly infiltrated the naval barrier via several speedboats, launching an assault on civilian beachgoers. Zikim Beach, a site near the northern Gaza Strip border that has been a closed military zone since the start of the war,