Israel said troops will stay in areas like Jenin "for the coming year," a move Palestinians say is an effort to cement control over the illegally occupied territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he refused to acknowledge that Ukraine owed the U.S. $500 billion for the wartime aid which Washington has provided to Kyiv, a figure often cited by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"We received thousands of bodies from the Zionist enemy in blue bags without any identification on them," a Hamas official said.

The release of the hostages comes days after Hamas returned the bodies of its two youngest hostages, Kfir and Ariel Bibas.