Gaza resistance movements are due to release three Israeli hostages today in exchange for 369 Palestinians in Israeli custody, the sixth swap of a truce that came close to collapse this week, AFP reports.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named the hostages due for release as Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen, Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov and Israeli-Argentinian Yair Horn, who have been held by Gaza fighters since Hamas’s Oct 7, 2023 attack.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club advocacy group said that Israel was to release 369 inmates in exchange, with 24 of them expected to be deported.

The vast majority, 333 people, are “prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were arrested after October 7”, the group said.

After the crisis that appeared to bring the fragile truce to a breaking point, Hamas said yesterday it expected talks on a second phase of the ceasefire to begin early next week.