Once the details are received, a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sets off in vehicles marked with the humanitarian organisation's logo to pick up the hostages in Gaza. Israeli military and medical personnel are also assembled at several different locations,

An Israeli government spokesman, David Mencer, said on Monday that Hamas had provided a list indicating that 25 of the 33 hostages were alive and that eight had been killed. “The list from Hamas matches Israel’s intelligence,” Mr. Mencer added.

Eight of the remaining hostages set to be released by Hamas in the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel are dead, according to an Israeli government spokesperson.

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Government spokesman David Mencer told reporters that Israel had received a list from the Palestinian armed group overnight that provided information on the status of the hostages

The female Israeli hostages who were freed on Saturday disobeyed their Hamas captors and made victory poses during the hand-off ceremony to spoil the terrorists’ photo-op, one of their fathers revealed.

The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad group, an ally of Hamas, released a video on January 27 showing the Israeli female hostage Arbel Yehud alive, before she is due to be released along with two other hostages later this week.