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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and US President Donald Trump held a call on Saturday to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza, according to the Egyptian presidential spokesperson. 

The statement said the two shared a "positive dialogue" on Gaza, including the need to implement the first and second phases of the ceasefire agreement. 

It added that Sisi and Trump agreed on the importance of continuous coordination and cooperation between the two countries, including economic and investment relations. 

Trump's comment that Egypt take in forcibly displaced Palestinians from Gaza was rejected publicly by Sisi. 

Israel's captives coordinator has demanded that the ceasefire deal mediators provide information about the fate of freed captive Yarden Bibas' wife and children.

“Yarden has returned home. But his wife Shiri and his children Ariel and Kfir have not. We have been searching for them for a long time, tracking their traces and investigating their fate,” Gal Hirsch, Israel’s captives coordinator, said in a statement.

“The Bibas family … has been living in constant fear for their lives for a long time … We continue to demand information about their condition from the mediators,” Hirsch added.

Bibas, his wife and children were captured in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023. His son Kfir is two years old and is the youngest captive held in Gaza.

Israeli forces raided the homes of recently freed Palestinian prisoners in Hebron, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

According the sources, Israeli soldiers stormed the home of freed prison Imad Abu Ramouz in al-Haras neighbourhood in Hebron as he was being released.

Israeli forces also raided the home of Sidqi al-Zaro, threatening his family and warning them against celebrating his release.

Wafa also reported that Israeli soldiers assaulted journalist Musab Shawar while he was covering the raid on Abu Ramouz’s home. Shawar was wounded and transferred to Alia Governmental Hospital for treatment.

Gaza's death toll has risen to 47,487 after hospitals received 27 bodies in the last 24 hours, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.

According to the statement, at least one of the bodies were from a new Israeli strike, two of the others were Palestinians who succumbed to their injuries after previous strikes, while 24 bodies were recovered from the rubble.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a statement confirming the transferral of three Israeli captives out of Gaza and the release of 183 Palestinian prisoners, including 175 transferred by the ICRC to Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

"This marks the completion of the fourth phase of release operations carried out by the ICRC in the last two weeks, facilitating the return of 18 hostages and 583 Palestinian detainees," the statement said.

"As more families anxiously await news of their loved ones, the ICRC continues to call for the continued implementation of the agreement to allow more families to be reunited," it added.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League have rejected US President Donald Trump's proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.

The countries warned that the move could “threaten the region’s stability, risk expanding the conflict, and undermine prospects for peace and coexistence among its peoples.”

The statement followed a meeting in Cairo of top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as Hussein al-Sheikh - a senior Palestinian official who serves as the main liaison with Israel - and Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul-Gheit.

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Hamas said in a statement that the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel on Saturday are now receiving treatment at hospitals due to “the abuse and torture they were subjected to” in Israeli prisons.

The group said that this “confirms the ugliness of what the prisoners are subjected to in the jails” of Israel.

“These horrific and ongoing violations against our heroic prisoners constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity,” it added, calling on the international community, United Nations and NGOs to hold Israel accountable.

A Palestinian man was shot in the chest by Israeli forces during the military's days-long raid of Tulkarm refugee camp.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its crews transferred a 50-year-old man from Tulkarm camp for treatment. He is currently undergoing heart and lung resuscitation.

Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces have sent reinforcements of military vehicles and bulldozers as part of its ongoing raid of the camp. They proceeded to flatten infrastructure, homes and shops.

Advocacy group the Palestinian Prisoners Club has released a statement saying that the recently released Palestinian prisoners show signs of torture, starvation, infections and scabies.

“Once again, every time prisoners are released, we find the prisoners’ bodies reflecting the level of crimes committed against them, including torture that is unprecedented in its level after October 7,” the group said. 

The newly released Palestinian prisoners who have just arrived in Khan Younis are undergoing medical checks at the European Hospital.

A Palestinian woman told Al Jazeera that her brother, a former prisoner who had just arrived on the bus, looked "very frail and sick".

“The moment I set my eyes on my brother I was filled with joy, but this joy was shortlived simply because my mother died and I could not have the courage to tell him," she said.

“Other brothers have been taken behind Israeli bars, our homes have been razed, levelled to the ground. Our joy cannot be completed until all Palestinians are free.”

A new report has revealed a sharp uptick in the number of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem and other parts of the occupied West Bank.

According to the report, the surge is driven by pressure from the far-right Religious Zionism party, led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and the Jewish Power party, led by Itamar Ben Gvir, the former national security minister, along with key figures from the Likud party and the "Land of Israel Lobby" in the Israeli Knesset.

Last Sunday, Israeli authorities issued demolition orders for all homes in Khirbet al-Nu’man, a village near Bethlehem, according to the weekly settlement report. The orders, which impact 45 homes, were issued under the pretext of lacking permits.

According to head of the local council, Jamal al-Darawi, the Jerusalem municipality has systematically denied the village water, sewage and waste collection.

In Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem, around 7,500 residents are either facing demolition orders or seizure by settler groups.

Between October 2023 and November 2024, Israeli forces demolished 320 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, with 87 in Silwan alone.

Buses carrying the 32 Palestinian prisoners released from Ofer prison are now arriving at the European Hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Younis. 

Large crowds have gathered to greet them.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the Red Cross has expressed "outrage" over the treatment of the 32 Palestinian prisoners recently released by the Israel Prison Service.

Quoting security sources, Haaretz said the Red Cross alleged that the prisoners were handcuffed with their hands raised, wearing bracelets that read "Eternity does not forget".

The Israeli Prison Service spokesperson told Haaretz that "the prison fighters are dealing with the worst of Israel's enemies, and until the last moment on Israeli soil, they will be treated under prison-like rule. We will not compromise on the security of our people".

The Rafah border crossing has been opened to allow the passage of 50 sick and wounded Palestinians out of Gaza to receive medical treatment, live video footage has shown.

This the first medical evacuation since Israel seized the crossing almost nine months ago.

Reporting by Reuters