Red Cross vehicles arrive at a location in northern Gaza as Hamas is set to free hostages in ceasefire deal.

Hamas freed the first of eight hostages on Thursday in the latest release since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took hold earlier this month.

Israel says an updated list from Hamas "matches Israeli intelligence" - meaning 18 hostages are still to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Red Cross team arrives at second hostage handover site in Gaza.

Red Cross vehicles arrive at a location in northern Gaza as Hamas is set to free hostages in ceasefire deal.

Red Cross team arrives at second hostage handover site in Gaza.

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were making their way home on Monday.

Israeli army says the Red Cross confirms it has seven hostages — two Israelis and five Thai nationals.

Two Israelis and five Thai nationals were released as part of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that began Jan. 19.

Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud has been handed over to the Red Cross, Israel's channel 12 said, as footage showed her surrounded by a surging crowd and armed Palestinian militants in a chaotic scene in southern Gaza on Thursday.

Egypt and Jordan have rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians, after US President Donald Trump suggested a plan to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and move its population.