The hostages were released after Hamas faced widespread criticism and accusations of violating Trump’s peace deal.

Israel identified two of the four deceased hostages whose bodies it received from Hamas via the Red Cross after the final 20 living hostages were returned.

While major questions remain about the future of the region, the exchange of hostages and prisoners marked a key step toward ending the deadliest war ever between Israel and Hamas.

Israel is to prevent the opening of a key aid crossing and reduce the number of trucks allowed into Gaza because of Hamas’s “failure” to return the bodies of dead hostages.

Israeli soldiers killed several Palestinians in northern Gaza on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump touted the end of the two-year war in the coastal enclave on a whistle-stop visit to the Middle East.

Hamas releases Israeli hostages, including Omri Miran, as twin brothers Ziv and Gali Berman are reunited under President Donald Trump's ceasefire deal.

Trump celebrated the apparent destruction of Iran's nuclear program by the U.S. and Israel, and urged Tehran to make peace.

President Trump hailed " the historic dawn of a new Middle East" in remarks to Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset on Monday, after all living hostages were reunited with their families.