Jamie Whitehead
Live reporter

The deadline for Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages is 11 hours away, as phase one of Trump's plan for peace in Gaza is taking shape.

The US president is currently travelling to Israel, along with members of his administration, where he says he will greet the freed hostages.

Speaking aboard Air Force One, he told reporters "the war is over" in Gaza.

His comment comes ahead of a summit of world leaders he will host with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in order to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza.

Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian says Israel is ready for the release of the hostages.

In exchange, Israel is expected to release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and 1,722 detainees from Gaza arrested after the 7 October attacks.

But, Hamas pushed for last minute changes to the list.

The group wants seven high-profile prisoners released, including Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat, and had said if just two of these seven were freed today, all the hostages would be released in return.

Meanwhile, dozens of aid trucks have been seen entering Gaza, as lorries are queueing at the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

We're now bringing our live coverage to an end, but we'll back tomorrow with full coverage of a busy day in the Middle East.

As Trump set off for the Middle East he said "the war is over" in Gaza - but Monday will bring a day of diplomacy and the deadline for Hamas to release the remaining hostages is due to expire.

Under the terms of the ceasefire, brokered in part by Trump, Hamas have until 12:00 local time (10:00 BST) to release all remaining hostages.

Although no time has been given, Israel says that it is expecting all 20 living hostages to be released to the Red Cross on Monday morning.

President Trump is set to land in Israel tomorrow morning, where he'll be greeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. They will then hold a meeting.

Trump will then depart to Egypt where he will host a summit with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and attended by world leaders. Netanyahu and Herzog will be staying in Israel.

This is where the peace plan for Gaza will be signed.

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After a flurry of updates from US President Donald Trump, we're now seeing new images of Palestinians returning to Khan Younis.

Large parts of the city lie in ruins, with homes and infrastructure destroyed.

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More now from Trump, who is still speaking to reporters on Air Force One.

He says that "everybody is into his deal" to bring an end to the war in Gaza.

Trump adds that the ceasefire "is going to hold".

"Everybody is happy, and I think it's going to stay that way," he says.

We've just heard some more from US President Donald Trump, who has just set off on Air Force One.

He tells reporters: "The war is over".

He is heading to the Middle East for a trip to Israel, before heading to Egypt for a summit of world leaders on the Gaza war.

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Away from Donald Trump and his administration, we can bring you an update from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

He is set to pledge a £20m humanitarian aid package during his visit to Egypt to help deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services to Gaza.

The funding is part of a broader £116m aid commitment in support of the Palestinian people this year.

Starmer is attending a landmark peace summit co-hosted by US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

“The UK will support the next stage of talks to ensure the full implementation of the peace plan, so that people on both sides can rebuild their lives in safety and security,” the prime minister is expected to say.

“Today is the first, crucial phase of ending this war and now we must deliver the second phase, in full.”

As we reported a little earlier, Starmer has already landed in Egypt ahead of a summit of world leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.

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We've now received a list of which members of Trump's administration are travelling with the president to the Middle East. They are:

• Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
• Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
• John Ratcliffe, CIA Director
• Dan Caine, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff
• Stephen Miller, political adviser

• James Blair, political consultant
• Dan Scavino, political adviser
• Steven Cheung, political adviser
• Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary
• Will Scharf, White House Staff Secretary
• Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol

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Moments ago, Trump set off for Israel aboard Air Force One.

Just before he boarded, Trump spoke to reporters waiting for him at the steps of the plane.

"This is going to be a very special time," he says. "This is a very special event."

He says there were "500,000 people yesterday and today in Israel" and says the "Muslim and Arab countries were cheering. Everyone was cheering at one time, that's never happened before.

"Usually if you have one cheering, the other is the opposite," he continues.

He ends by saying "everybody is amazed, they're thrilled, and we're going to have an amazing time."

US President Donald Trump arrives at Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews to set off for his Middle East Trip.

As a reminder, Trump is scheduled to arrive in Israel tomorrow morning, where he will meet families of the hostages, have a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and then address the Knesset.

He will then head to Egypt to host a Gaza peace plan summit alongside Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

You can watch Trump's arrival at Air Force One by clicking Watch live above.

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Hostages Square in Tel Aviv will remain open from midnight local time (22:00 BST) to provide "live coverage of the hostages' release," the official X account of the Hostages and Missing Families forum writes. , external

Continuous broadcasts of their expected return will be shown "for the public who want to be present during these historic and deeply moving moments," it adds.

The square in Tel Aviv has hosted weekly rallies calling for the hostages' return, last night, the huge crowds leaving hoped they would be doing so for the final time.

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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Egypt ahead of tomorrow’s Gaza peace summit.

Starmer is one of several world leaders heading to the coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the meeting, which is due to include a signing ceremony for an agreement aimed at ending the Gaza conflict.

Earlier, Downing Street said the PM would thank key regional mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey at the conference.

He is also set to pay “particular tribute” to US President Donald Trump, who is co-hosting the summit with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

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A negotiator who was involved in the talks that led to the agreement of the Gaza ceasefire deal tells the BBC that “Hamas can no longer control Gaza” – saying the group has lost the support of the people.

Speaking to BBC’s Newshour programme, Gershon Baskin says this loss of control could play into the refusal of Hamas members to demilitarise.

“Many of them feel they have to hold their guns in order to protect themselves against other Gazans, not from Israel,” he says.

Baskin adds that “expectations are sky high right now” that the conflict won’t resume, suggesting Donald Trump will play a key role in preventing Israel from resuming its efforts to eliminate Hamas.

“This is the end of the war, and this comes because the United States and Donald Trump have very serious, very important interest in the Arab Gulf, and he cannot jeopardise the relationships that he has and the interest of the United States in order to allow Benjamin Netanyahu to continue a war that should have been ended way more than a year ago,” he adds.

Barbara Plett Usher
Reporting from Jerusalem

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In our previous post, we brought you reports of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attending the summit in Egypt - we can now bring you confirmation.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will attend a summit to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza, his office says.

He was invited by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, who is hosting the event in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

It will be attended by the US President Donald Trump along with Western and regional leaders.

Trump's plan for ending the war in Gaza leaves open the possibility of a role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) after it carries out reforms, even though the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected any PA involvement.

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We're looking ahead to tomorrow's Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, on Egypt's southern peninsula. Here's a look at the preparations under way in the quiet coastal town.

US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be holding the talks - we've taken a closer look at which other leaders will be joining them in Egypt.

Among those confirmed to be attending are British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also says he will be in attendance.

And, in the last hour, US news outlet Axios reports that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be at the summit, citing a senior Palestinian official.

We're keeping an eye on who else is confirmed to be attending the summit and will keep you up to date with the latest.

Rushdi Abualouf
Gaza correspondent, in Istanbul

At least 27 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Hamas security forces and armed members of the Dughmush family in Gaza City, in one of the most violent internal confrontations since the end of major Israeli operations in the enclave.

Masked gunmen from Hamas exchanged fire with militants near the Jordanian hospital in southern Gaza City.

Witnesses said that, according to a senior official in the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, security units surrounded an armed militia inside the city and engaged in heavy fighting to detain its members.

The ministry said eight members of the security forces were killed in what it described as “an armed assault by a militia”.

Local medical sources said that 19 members of the Dughmush clan were killed, along with eight Hamas fighters, since the fighting began Saturday.

Eyewitnesses said the clashes erupted in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood after a Hamas force of more than 300 fighters moved to storm a residential block where Dughmush gunmen were entrenched.

Residents described scenes of panic as dozens of families fled their homes under heavy gunfire, many of them displaced multiple times during the war.

"This time people weren’t fleeing Israeli attacks," one resident said. "They were running from their own people."

The Dughmush family, one of Gaza’s most prominent clans, has long had a tense relationship with Hamas, and its armed members have clashed with the group on several occasions in the past.

The Hamas-run interior ministry said its forces are in the way to restored order, warning that “any armed activity outside the framework of the resistance” would be dealt with firmly.

Both sides traded accusations over who was responsible for triggering the clashes.

Hamas said that Dughmush gunmen killed two of its fighters and wounded five others, prompting the group to launch an operation against them.

However, a source from the Dughmush family told local media that Hamas forces had come to a building that once served as the Jordanian Hospital, where the family had taken refuge after their homes in the al-Sabra neighbourhood were destroyed in a recent Israeli attack.

The source claimed that Hamas sought to evict the family from the building to establish a new base for its forces there.

Netanyahu continues saying he and his wife met with families of the hostages several times and they saw the "longing and pain".

"These encounters were with me during every decision we made," he says.

Addressing the hostages' families, he says: "We will bring back your loved ones."

The Israeli prime minister concludes his brief statement by thanking the citizens of the country who "stood sturdy day after day"

"Tomorrow is the beginning of a new path," he says.

"Together we will continue to win, and with the help of God, together we will guarantee the eternity of the country and land of Israel."

Netanyahu starts his address by saying the release of the hostages is an "historic event that some people did not believe would happen".

He notes there are "so many disagreements among us", but he hopes that the people of Israel can "set these differences aside" in the future.

"Wherever we fought, we won," he says. But the campaign is not over yet, he adds, insisting there are "very big security challenges" ahead.

We're expecting to hear from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next few minutes.

His statement comes after Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian said earlier that Israel is expecting all 20 living hostages to be released to the Red Cross on Monday morning.

You can follow along by clicking Watch live and we'll bring you the key lines - stay with us.

Barbara Plett Usher
Reporting from Jerusalem

We have not been given any indication whether Hamas's push for key Palestinian prisoners rejected for release by Israel is resolved yet.

Hamas put seven high-value prisoners at the top of a list of 250 to be set free, including a number of Hamas commanders and other figures not from the group who are seen widely in Palestinian society as symbols of resistance.

This includes Fatah's Marwan Barghouti and the PFLP's Ahmed Saadat. Israel rejected these names and so Hamas has brought them back - insisting that at least two of the seven be approved.

The armed group is said to have told mediators that Israel must stick to the list which it says was already agreed

It's not clear whether the Hamas demand will have an impact on the hostage release - they have said everything is in place for the exchange.

One of Hamas's main goals from 7 October was to be able to exchange Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

Israel seems determined to not let the group be able to claim this kind of achievement.

Abdul Basir Hassan
BBC News Arabic correspondent, reporting from Sharm El-Sheikh

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Sharm El-Sheikh is preparing for an extraordinary event in the final hours before US President Donald Trump's plane lands at the city's international airport.

The quiet coastal city accustomed to tourists and divers, is now experiencing a rare state of alert - and you can see it in every detail.

It will play host to world leaders for the signing ceremony on Monday to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza.

Local authorities are spraying the sidewalks with water, while new paint has been applied to the edges and walls with a "fresh shine." Every tree has been trimmed, every sign has been repositioned.

Flags of the participating countries are waving in the squares, and around the conference hall. Small details that might go unnoticed on normal days are now under the authorities' microscope.

The area surrounding the summit halls is partially closed off - there’s a state of heightened security alert at all entrances and exits to South Sinai Governorate.

Sharm el-Sheikh is now more than just a quiet Egyptian city on the Red Sea, it will transform into a decision-making centre, an open diplomatic arena, and a vivid representation of a world trying to redraw the political map of the Middle East.