DEVELOPING: Hamas releases seven Israeli hostages after 738 days in hellish captivity as families who never gave up hope gather to welcome them home — and Trump arrives to oversee peace deal.

Related: “Hostages to be released by Hamas on Monday will need to be taught how to eat normally again after being starved in captivity, medics said. Dr Michal Steinman, the chief nursing officer at Beilinson Hospital, said they would have had little to eat in the two years since Hamas launched its Oct 7 2023 attack, triggering the Israel-Hamas war. ‘We have to be extremely careful because we are wary of overfeeding,’ she said. The hospital is one of four centres in Israel due to receive the 20 hostages believed to still be alive.”