As we've just reported, Hamas says it is awaiting a list from Israel of 90 Palestinian prisoners who'll be released later in exchange for the three Israeli hostages.

Here's everything we know - and don't know - about them:

• Yesterday, Egypt - a mediator in the ceasefire - said a total of 1,890 Palestinians would be released in the first six-week stage of the ceasefire
• Israel's justice ministry also released a list of 734 prisoners and detainees it said it would free - they're expected to be among the 1,890. We don't know about the rest - they could be people not held by Israel's justice system, for example Gazans detained by the IDF
• There are other details we don't know, such as the order the prisoners will be released in or how many at a time, but Palestinians have already started gathering near prisons to wait for news
• And although we haven't had the ratio corroborated by Israel, Hamas is suggesting the ceasefire states that for every Israeli hostage freed, 30 Palestinian prisoners will be too

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Hamas says it's still waiting for Israel to send a list of the Palestinian prisoners - including women and children - it plans to release today as part of the ceasefire and hostage exchange deal.

In a statement, Hamas says the ceasefire states that for every Israeli hostage released, 30 Palestinian prisoners will be freed from Israeli jails - and that 90 should be then be freed today.

As a reminder, three Israeli women - who were taken hostage on 7 October 2023 by Hamas - are due to be released later.

A spokesperson for Gaza's health ministry told reporters earlier that they'll be working with the Red Cross for the prisoner exchange and the Gaza European Hospital - in the southern city of Khan Younis - is where the freed prisoners will be sent for initial treatment.

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Jerusalem

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid began entering Gaza on Sunday just 15 minutes after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, UN aid official Jonathan Whittall says in a post on X.

"A massive effort has been under way over the past days from humanitarian partners to load and prepare to distribute a surge of aid across all of Gaza," he writes.

A vast amount of aid is required to stem the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The civilian population is lacking many basic needs, Juliette Touma, from the UN refugee agency UNRWA, adds.

"I would not call these living conditions, they are not conditions fit for human beings," she says.

Aid agencies are hoping as quickly as possible to have hundreds of trucks entering the strip daily, though there are concerns over arrangements for safely distributing the aid.

During the first phase of the deal, it is Hamas that remains responsible for administrative matters - including policing.

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The first aid trucks have been seen entering Gaza this morning, since the ceasefire came into force.

The UN food agency says its aid trucks have entered into Gaza via two crossings: Zikim in the north and Kerem Shalom in the south. Other aid trucks have been seen entering the Strip via the Rafah crossing.

"The first trucks carried life-saving wheat flour and ready-to-eat food parcels for people in desperate need," the World Food Programme says on X.

Gaza relies heavily on aid for food. In recent weeks, just 40 trucks of aid were getting in on average, while pre-conflict, around 500 trucks entered Gaza daily. The ceasefire deal requires 600 aid trucks to enter each day.

We reported earlier on the thousands of displaced Palestinians who've been pictured and filmed returning to the cities they fled during the 15-month war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

We're now seeing footage of some of those people pausing to celebrate, often in big groups, as they are able to make the journey - despite the reality being they may have no physical home to return to.

Saleem Nabhan, a displaced man from Gaza City, is quoted by Reuters news agency as saying: "Our homes were swept away, so we will set up a tent and stay in our neighbourhood, so we can feel that we are back to our neighbourhood, to our home."

In the southern city of Khan Younis, crowds are singing and chanting - guns have also been fired into the air. Here's the scene:

A long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza has come into force, but in Israel the deal is viewed with some caution.

While welcoming the chance to get Israeli hostages home, these people in Jerusalem also expressed concerns about the release of Palestinian prisoners and what may happen in the future:

• As a reminder: As part of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas will free Israelis it is holding in phases - and in exchange Israel will free a number of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. Get up to speed with what we know about the deal.

Jonah Fisher
Reporting from Tel Aviv

Outside Sheba Medical Center, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, preparations are being made for the arrival of the hostages.

A media area has been set up for journalists - and blue barriers have been brought out in anticipation of possible large crowds of families and supporters.

Steve Walz, head of press for the hospital, tells us that the hostages will be brought there - but he has no idea when.

Walz says the hostages would be likely to arrive by helicopter and then taken out of public sight into the hospital.

We're expecting Hamas to hand over the three women - Doron Steinbrecher, Emily Damari and Romi Gonen - after 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT) to the Red Cross. They will then be given to the Israeli military who will take them to one of three locations outside Gaza.

An assessment will then be made of their medical needs - and they could then be flown here.

Lucy Manning
Special correspondent

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I've just been speaking to a source close to the Damari family, reacting to the news Emily is set to be freed by Hamas, who tells me:

"All Emily’s mum Mandy wants to do is hug Emily. But she won’t believe it until she sees it. It’s been a torturous 471 days, but a particularly torturous 24 hours.

"Until she’s out and Mandy can actually see that she’s out ... It hasn’t happened until it happens. It’s not done until it’s done. And there’s a long road ahead.

"They’ve no idea what condition they are in, and there are other hostages who need to be released and need humanitarian aid to be kept alive. It’s a long, long road ahead.

"Mandy is very grateful for all the love and support, advocacy and prayers.

"They are pleading with people to respect the family’s privacy. It’s an extremely sensitive time.

"It’s an absolute blessing Doron Steinbrecher and Emily are both on the list because the mums are best friends."

Despite the three-hour delay to the ceasefire this morning, key mediator Qatar suggests, external the release of the first three female hostages is still on for today - we've got details on the three here.

"They are three Israeli citizens, one of whom holds Romanian citizenship and the other British citizenship," Qatar says. "Thus, the ceasefire has begun."

The release of the first three hostages is supposed to happen sometime after 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT) today.

In a statement, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's office also says four other living female hostages could be freed in seven days.

• For context: Qatar, along with the US and Egypt, has played a key role in the mediation talks between Israel and Hamas.

Thousands of internally displaced Gazans have begun making their way back to their homes this morning.

Long lines of people carrying clothing and other belongings can be seen in pictures published by photographers in the territory. As can a convoy of cars, some filled with people holding the Palestinian flag.

Here's what we're seeing:

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We're hearing from the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which says thousands of trucks filled with food and flour are now waiting to enter Gaza - something agreed in the ceasefire deal.

In a post on X, the agency says it has "4,000 truckloads of aid ready to enter Gaza - half of them carry food and flour".

The agency's head Philippe Lazzarini adds: "Attacks on aid convoys in the Gaza Strip could decline as humanitarian relief comes in following a ceasefire".

• Want more on this? The BBC's Fergal Keane recently spent time on board an aid convoy, on its way to Gaza

Lucy Manning
Special correspondent

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The Damari family has waited 471 days for the news that came out this morning - that their daughter, Emily, is to be freed.

The overnight delay for the names to be released was, for her family, "horrific".

On Friday night in Israel, Mandy Damari - born in Kent, south-east England - lit candles to mark the start of the Jewish Shabbat (Sabbath). Behind the candles, there lay a picture of her daughter with a British flag at the side.

Mandy prayed that this would be the last Shabbat Emily would be held as a hostage. But she will not believe Emily is free until she sees her.

British-Israeli Emily, 28, was dragged out from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October 2023 by Hamas gunmen. The Tottenham Hotspur fan was shot in the hand and leg, and her dog Choocha was shot and killed.

Her family were told in March 2024 that she was still alive, but received no information about her condition. Since then there has been nothing.

Now they are so close to their aim of finally bringing Emily home.

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After 15 months of fighting, and a three-hour delay to the original start time, the Gaza ceasefire has begun.

It means the fighting between Israel and Hamas will stop and Israeli hostages being held by Hamas will be released, in phases, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails.

There's been a lot of information to digest this morning - here are the key things you need to know:

• The ceasefire began at 11:15 local time (09:15 GMT) - it had been due to start three hours earlier but Israel said it could not go ahead until Hamas had delivered a list of names of the hostages it planned to release
• Hamas blamed "technical reasons" for the delay, but went on to release the names of the three people it says will be the first to be freed: Doron Steinbrecher, 31, dual British-Israeli national Emily Damari, 28, and 24-year-old Romi Gonen
• After the delay this morning, Israeli air strikes continued in Gaza, killing at least 19 according to figures from the Hamas-run civil defence agency
• We don't currently know how the delay this morning will impact timings for the first exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners - which had been due to take place at 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT)
• Hundreds of aid trucks are now waiting to cross into Gaza - their entry is a condition of the ceasefire deal and is something humanitarian workers have been calling for for months
• And since it became clear the ceasefire would take effect today, far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir has resigned from the government, branding the truce a "victory for terrorism"

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Jerusalem

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The far-right Jewish Power party has announced that it's leaving the Israeli government in protest at the ceasefire deal, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with just a razor-thin parliamentary majority left.

National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, along with Yitzhak Wasserlauf and Amichai Eliyahu, submitted their letters of resignation this morning.

Ben-Gvir has long been a vocal opponent of the ceasefire deal, and has pushed for Israel to continue its military operation against Hamas in Gaza.

Writing to Netanyahu to announce his resignation, Ben-Gvir said he would not work to overthrow the government, but called the ceasefire agreement a "complete victory for terrorism".

After that flurry of breaking news, we've just heard from the office of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu that the ceasefire in Gaza will commence at 11:15 local time (09:15 GMT).

That means we're expecting it to start anytime now.

The Israeli hostages who'll be freed by Hamas as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal include the youngest and oldest hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, according to a list published by Israel.

Israel's official X account , external shared an image with the names of the first 33 hostages that are expected to be released.

Kfir Bibas was nine months old when he was first taken and has now had two birthdays whilst in captivity. Shlomo Mantzur, 86, is the oldest hostage to have been kidnapped and is expected to be in the first wave of hostages to be released.

Here's the list:

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Joel Gunter
Reporting from Jerusalem

In November 2023, on the weekend the first Israeli hostages were released from Gaza, I was with Yamit Ashkenazi, whose sister Doron has just been confirmed as one of the three hostages expected today.

Doron’s family knew then that she would not be part of that release, which prioritised mothers and children.

"I am a mother also, so I understand why the children have to come out first," Yamit said at the time.

"But Doron is my parents' young daughter. She is a human being. Behind every number there is a person with a story and relatives. So we must get them all back, not just certain categories."

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Yamit had just had a new tattoo done. It read: “As the sun we will rise again”, but had some of the sun's rays missing.

"They will be added when she is home," she said.

If all goes to plan today, more than a year on, the sisters will finally be reunited.

In a post on Telegram, Hamas has just released the names of the three female hostages who it says will be freed first, as part of the ceasefire with Israel.

They are Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher. Here's what we know about them:

• Doron Steinbrecher, 31, a veterinary nurse, who was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked
• Emily Damari, 28, who holds dual British-Israeli nationality and was taken hostage from Kibbutz Kfar Aza
• Romi Gonen, 24, who was ambushed as she tried to escape from the Supernova Festival

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The Hamas-run Gaza civil defence agency has updated its death toll from this morning, saying 10 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes since the ceasefire was meant to have started this morning.

Official spokesman Mahmoud Basal says that includes six in Gaza City, three in the north and one in Rafah. Another 25 people have been injured.

Earlier, Israel's military said it would continue its military operation in Gaza until the ceasefire begins.

A further update for you now - mediators of the ceasefire talks and Israeli media now say that the names of the hostages set to be freed by Hamas have been handed over.

We're yet to see that list and there's been no update on whether this means the ceasefire will begin today, as originally planned, but we'll let you know when we hear.

This list of names has been the key stumbling block that meant Israel delayed the start of the ceasefire this morning, which was due to start at 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT).

Part of the deal states that the names of the hostages to be released must be provided at least 24 hours ahead of time. Earlier, Hamas said the reason for its delay was due to a "technical" issue.