The anticipated Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal will take effect at 8.30am (local time) on Sunday, reports Al Jazeera.
According to the plan, Hamas will release three living female captives in exchange for 95 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, most of them women and children.
The exchange will begin after 4pm (local time).
Israeli media said that Hamas is yet to name the captives who will be released on Sunday. Ynet News, citing an unnamed Hamas source, said the Palestinian group is blaming the delay on technical reasons.
The source told Ynet that Hamas members communicate “physically via emissaries and it takes time to agree on the names and the location of the hostages when [Israeli military] planes are still above them”.
The release of the captives will be facilitated by the Red Cross.
In addition, Israeli troops are to start pulling back from Gaza’s population centres. In the first six weeks, Israeli troops are to pull back into a buffer zone about a kilometre (0.6 miles) wide inside Gaza along its borders with Israel.
Israeli troops in Rafah have begun withdrawing from the centre of the southern city.
The occupied force is also to ease its blockade on Gaza, and allow in 600 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies. The UN and aid agencies say they have supplies waiting at the entry points to the Palestinian enclave and are ready to surge the deliveries of food, water, medicine and shelter materials.
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