We expect all 20 of our living hostages to be released together on one occasion to the Red Cross, says spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian at a press conference.
The hostages will then, "without any sick displays by Hamas", be driven to parts of Gaza controlled by Israel for further transport to the military base in Re'im in southern Israel where they will be reunited with their families, she continues.
Once that has been done, the remains of the hostages who are not alive – 28 people, according to Bedrosian – will be handed over.
Hamas: 20 are alive
Hamas has confirmed that 20 people in the hostage group are alive and may be willing to start releasing them as early as this evening, writes the Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources. It is described as the first time the extremist group has confirmed that 20 of the hostages are alive.
An Israeli source tells the WSJ that they are ready to receive the hostages as early as today, but still believe it will be delayed until Monday.
This is also the message Hamas has given earlier during the weekend.
According to the signed agreement, the prisoner exchange will begin on Monday morning as agreed, says Hamas representative Osama Hamdan to the news agency AFP.
In exchange, Israel will release around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. This will happen only when all the Israeli hostages are on Israeli territory, according to Shosh Bedrosian.
Disagreement about names
The parties seem, however, not to agree on who will be released. Israel has, among other things, said no to releasing Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader within the Fatah movement who has been called "the Palestinians' Nelson Mandela" and is seen as a possible future Palestinian president.
But Hamas continues to insist that Barghouti and six other Palestinian leaders should be released, sources close to the negotiators tell AFP.
The prisoner exchange is part of the first phase of the US peace plan. Gal Hirsch, Israel's coordinator in the hostage issue, says that Hamas' 72-hour deadline began at 12 o'clock on Friday.
On Monday afternoon, world leaders will gather in Egypt for talks on the next steps in a peace agreement under the leadership of US President Donald Trump and Egypt's Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi. Neither Israel nor Hamas will participate, according to spokespersons.
Earlier on Monday, Trump is expected to visit Israel to meet with relatives of the hostages and speak in the country's parliament, the Knesset.
