More Israeli hostages are expected to be released on Sunday but timings are unknown. 26 Israeli hostages - all women and children - have been freed as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas
- 78 Palestinian prisoners have also been released from Israeli jails over two days. Meanwhile, 14 Thai hostages and one Filipino have been freed as part of a separate deal between Hamas and the Egyptian government.
- Today is the third day of a four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
- Gazans have been using the pause in fighting to get desperately-needed supplies of fuel, food and medicine
- Hamas’s attacks on 7 October killed 1,200 people, with about 240 taken hostage
- Since then, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory campaign.
The UN has confirmed that 129,000 litres of fuel crossed into Gaza on Sunday.
61 lorries of aid also reached northern Gaza today, the largest number since 7 October. They included food, water and medical supplies.
People have been queueing to collect supplies of humanitarian aid on the third day of the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas.
A professor who leads the team at the Edmund and Lily Safra Children's Hospital has given an update on the condition of 12 of the 13 hostages released on Saturday.
Itai Pessach said it had been a long emotional night for the women and children released by Hamas who arrived at the facility at 03:30 local time (01:30 GMT).
He said none of them had needed emergency medical treatment.
Pessach added that they had also received psychological evaluations and medics were helping them prepare for their return to the community where the "whole nation would embrace them."
Separately, Israeli media report the other Israeli hostage released on Saturday, Maya Regev, was taken to a different hospital upon her release and was to undergo emergency surgery for her injuries.
The armed wing of Hamas, the al Qassam Brigades, say four of its military commanders have been killed.
In a statement released on their Telegram channel, quoted by the Reuters news agency, the group says that one of Hamas operatives that has been killed was Ahmad Al Ghandour, known as Abu Anas, who was described as a "member of the military council and the commander of the North Brigade".
It was not made immediately clear when and how they were killed.
Families of hostages gathered for a huge rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday as they waited for news of some of the hostages being freed by Hamas as part of the deal with Israel.
Addressing the crowds, Shaykh Mowafaq Tarīf, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, said: "At the sight of the pictures of the child hostages, eyes well up with tears. How can one harm an innocent and pure child? How can one hurt innocent women? Good, peace-loving people?
"This is the depths of inhumanity and an abyss of darkness and hatred. The Druze stand behind all the hostages.
"We feel your pain and identify with the terrible suffering you face. We share common values of human love and the sanctity of life."
He added that the return of all the hostages was "an unparalleled moral imperative".
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