Hamas will release the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, while the remaining six hostages still alive will be released on Saturday, including Hishamal-Sayed and Avera Mengisto, who were held in Gaza before the start of war there, the Hamas leader in Gaza has said.
The bodies will include members from the Bibas family, Khalil al-Hayya said in a televised speech.
Hamas militants captured Yarden and Shiri Bibas and their two children on 7 October 2023: Ariel, who was four when kidnapped and baby Kfir who was nine months old.
Yarden Bibas was released on 1 February.
Campaign group the Hostages and Missing Families Forum published the names of the six Israelis who are due to be released on Saturday.
"The Hostages and Missing Families Forum welcomes with profound joy the return of Eliya Cohen, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Hisham Al-Sayed, and Avera Mengistu this Saturday", the group said in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed that a deal has been reached to release the six living hostages, instead of only three who were slated for release, from Gaza on Saturday.
It also confirmed that the four bodies of deceased hostages will be handed over on Thursday followed by four more next week.
US plan to displace Gazans 'will go nowhere' - Khamenei
Meanwhile, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed a proposal by the US to displace Palestinians from Gaza, saying it "will go nowhere".
Mr Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
"The idiotic American plans or some other plans regarding Gaza and Palestine will go nowhere," Mr Khamenei said.
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump proposed a plan for a US takeover of war-battered Gaza and its Palestinian inhabitants to be relocated elsewhere, including to Egypt and Jordan.
Mr Trump's plan sparked an outcry from Arab governments including Egypt and Jordan as well as from world leaders, and the United Nations warned against "ethnic cleansing" in the Palestinian territory.
"No plan will be completed without the consent of the resistance and the people of Gaza," Mr Khamenei said, adding that global public opinion favoured the Palestinians.
