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Here are the day's key developments:

• Germany's Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil signalled his government would lift restrictions on supplying weapons to Israel that were announced in August as a rebuke to Israel's war on Gaza.

• US President Donald Trump said that the war in Gaza is "over," as he headed to Israel and Egypt to celebrate a ceasefire and captive-prisoner exchange deal.

• The mediating nations for the ceasefire deal in Gaza are to sign a document guaranteeing the agreement at Monday's summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, a diplomatic source told AFP.

• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will say his government is ready to play a "leading role" in Gaza's reconstruction at a summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, his office said in a statement.

• The Israeli army has raided the homes of several Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank whose names were included in the list of prisoners to be released in an exchange deal following the Gaza ceasefire.

• Prominent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi, who was known for documenting Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, was killed late on Sunday whilst reporting on armed hostilities in Gaza City, Al Jazeera reported.

• Egypt is training and coordinating up to 5,000 Palestinian personnel to be deployed in Gaza, alongside Jordan, Egypt's foreign minister Badr Abdelatty said, speaking on CBS's Face the Nation.

• Israeli soldiers torched civilian infrastructure in Gaza in the immediate aftermath of Hamas and Israel signing the ceasefire agreement on Thursday, Drop Site News is reporting.

• The release of Israeli captives held in Gaza is set to begin early on Monday morning, an Israeli government spokesperson has confirmed.

Iran said Monday that neither its President Masoud Pezeshkian nor foreign minister Abbas Araghchi will attend the Gaza summit in Egypt after confirming an invitation from the host country.

State news agency Irna reported that Egypt had invited Iran on Sunday evening to take part in Monday's summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

But early Monday, Araghchi posted on X: "Neither President Pezeshkian nor I can engage with counterparts who have attacked the Iranian People and continue to threaten and sanction us," in reference to the United States.

The minister said Tehran nonetheless supported any initiative "to end Israel's genocide in Gaza" and to defend Palestinians' right to self-determination.

Germany's Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil on Sunday signalled his government would lift restrictions on supplying weapons to Israel that were announced in August as a rebuke to Israel's war on Gaza.

The remarks by Klingbeil to German broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening suggested a policy shift following a ceasefire holding between Israel and Hamas for a third day ahead of a peace summit in Egypt on Monday.

"We will reassess the situation," Klingbeil said about the weapons exports.

In August, Germany suspended exports of weaponry that could be used in the Gaza Strip because of Israel's plan to expand its operations there - the first time united Germany had acknowledged denying military support to its long-time ally.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to travel to Egypt to participate in the signing ceremony for the peace plan.

The bodies of 13 Palestinians were recovered from various areas in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Information Centre, citing Nasser Medical Complex.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the war in Gaza is "over," as he headed to Israel and Egypt to celebrate a ceasefire and captive-prisoner exchange deal.

"The war is over. Okay? You understand that?" Trump told reporters when asked if he was confident that Israel's war on Gaza was finished.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will say his government is ready to play a "leading role" in Gaza's reconstruction at a summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, his office said in a statement Sunday.

Starmer is set to announce £20 million ($26.7 million) in humanitarian funding - part of a broader aid committment for Gaza - to help repair water, sanitation and hygiene services decimated by Israel's two years of war on Gaza.

He is headed to Egypt for the Gaza peace summit chaired by US President Donald Trump and Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, after a ceasefire was agreed between Israel and Hamas on Friday.

"Today is the first, crucial phase of ending this war and now we must deliver the second phase, in full," Starmer was expected to say at the summit, according to the Downing Street press release.

The UK government also announced its decision to host a three-day conference on Gaza's recovery and reconstruction, which would discuss plans for postwar Gaza and the Palestinian Authority's transformation.

"The conference will be attended by a range of international partners, including Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, as well as private sector and international development finance and financiers," according to the press release.

An Israeli military official said that not all bodies of captives held in Gaza are expected to be returned to Israel along with the 20 living Israeli captives on Monday.

"Unfortunately, this is something we anticipate that not all fallen hostages will be returned tomorrow," the official told reporters during a briefing late on Sunday.

Earlier Sunday, Shosh Bedrosian, spokeswoman for the prime minister's office, had said an "international body" would be established to locate the remains of captives not returned as part of Monday's exchange.

Israel has warned Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against celebrating prisoners' release on Monday, Al Jazeera reported.

Israeli forces distributed fliers in areas where the prisoners' families live, warning “anyone who participates in such activities exposes himself to punishment and arrest," the report said, citing the families of the prisoners.

The report came as the Israeli army has raided the homes of several Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank whose names were included in the list of prisoners to be released in an exchange deal following the Gaza ceasefire.

Israel agreed to release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving long sentences and life sentences, and 1,700 prisoners from the Gaza Strip captured during the war, in exchange for Hamas releasing all Israeli prisoners, both alive and dead.

Former US Vice President Kamala Harris said only a court can judge whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, but the scale of killings makes it a question that should be asked.

"It's a term of law that a court will decide," Harris said during an exclusive interview with MSNBC's The Weekend.

"But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed and the number of innocent civilians that have been killed, the refusal to give aid and support – we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it. Yeah."

Harris also said she commends Qataris, Egyptians and US President Donald Trump for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

The mediating nations for the ceasefire deal in Gaza are to sign a document guaranteeing the agreement at Monday's summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, a diplomatic source told AFP.

"The signatories will be the guarantors - (the) US, Egypt, Qatar and likely Turkey," the diplomat briefed on the signing ceremony told AFP on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive arrangements, after the Egyptian foreign ministry earlier said a document ending Israel's war on Gaza was expected to be signed during the gathering hosted by the US and Egypt.

Prominent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi, who was known for documenting Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, was killed late on Sunday whilst reporting on armed hostilities in Gaza City, Al Jazeera reported.

The Qatar based broadcaster reported that Jafarawi was shot dead by an armed militia in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, as he covered clashes between an Israel-backed entity and Hamas fighters.

Al Jazeera reported that several displaced Palestinians were also killed during the clashes, with the armed group seeking to exploit the security vaccuum in the city following Friday's historic announcement that Israel and Hamas had approved a deal to "end the war" and exchange prisoners. 

"Every day is a new loss and a new goodbye, another sadness - even though the Israeli military has stopped this war but what is left from this army and the betrayal of some people," Mohamed Shahen, a Gaza-based journalist, said in reference to the Gaza gangs, as he shared a video of the lifeless body of the activist.

Read more: Prominent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi killed by armed militia in Gaza City

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas will attend a summit to finalise an agreement aimed at ending Israel's war in Gaza, an Axios reporter said on X on Sunday, citing a senior Palestinian official.

The summit, which will be attended by US President Donald Trump, will be held in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.

Tehran confirmed on Sunday that it received an official invitation from Cairo to attend a Gaza summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, state media reported, without indicating whether a representative would attend.

At a cabinet meeting, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi briefed the government on Egypt's invitation to President Masoud Pezeshkian, "Iran's subsequent refusal, and a later invitation extended to the foreign minister," Irna state news agency reported, without disclosing whether Araghchi would attend.

The Gaza health ministry said in a statement that it has completed all necessary preparations for the medical examinations of the Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel.

About 2,000 Palestinian detainees, including 250 from the West Bank, will be released Monday after Hamas frees 20 Israeli captives.

Israeli captives could be released from Gaza “any moment now," US Vice President JD Vance said.

“It really should be any moment now,” the vice president told the NBC News programme Meet the Press when asked about the timing for the release of the captives by Hamas.