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Hamas re­leased all 20 of the last liv­ing hostages on Mon­day, the Is­raeli mil­i­tary said. It is part of a break­through cease­fire af­ter two years of war be­tween Is­rael and Hamas in the dev­as­tat­ed Gaza Strip.

Bus­es car­ry­ing dozens of freed Pales­tin­ian pris­on­ers drove to the West Bank city of Ra­mal­lah and the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run Pris­on­ers Of­fice said. Is­rael is free­ing more than 1,900 pris­on­ers as part of the cease­fire deal. U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is in the re­gion to dis­cuss the U.S.-pro­posed deal and post­war plans with oth­er lead­ers.

A surge of hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid was ex­pect­ed in­to famine-strick­en Gaza, where hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple have been left home­less.