
We're ending our live coverage now of a highly significant day in the Middle East and one many thought might never come as US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza appears to be holding.
Fighting in the Strip between Israel and Hamas ended on 10 October after little more than two years and the culmination of phase one of Trump's 20-point deal happened on Monday morning: all 20 living Israeli hostages were released by Hamas in return for almost 2,000 Palestinians who had been held in Israeli prisons.