In exchange, Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners, all of them women and children, early Monday to families that had waited in the cold outside the Ofer Prison in the West Bank.
The ceasefire was initially scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, but was delayed after Hamas was late to provide the hostages’ names to mediators, and Israel carried out last-minute strikes against the militant group’s facilities, the Israeli military said.
