Israel will release 42 Palestinian prisoners, while Hamas will release 14 hostages on the second day of the truce.
According to reports, the Israeli Prison Service admin had received a list of 42 women and child detainees who will be released in the second batch of the truce agreement.
Meanwhile, an Israeli official told AFP that "Hamas will release 14 hostages on Saturday.
The first day of the four-day truce, brokered by Qatar , Egypt and the United States, witnessed Hamas releasing 13 hostages, in exchange for 39 Palestinian detainees.
Hamas also released 10 Thai farm workers and a Filipino on the first day even though they were not part of the deal.
Four tankers of fuel and another four containing cooking gas entered the southern Gaza Strip via the Rafah Crossing early on Saturday, while 196 trucks of humanitarian aid also crossed on Friday.
US President Joe Biden said there was a real chance of extending the truce, adding that the pause was a critical opportunity to get humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state lawmaker to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures, and the first Muslim mayor of the largest US city.
At least 58 people were dead after Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of destruction in the central Philippines and continued to batter parts of Palawan island on Wednesday as it headed toward the South China Sea.
At least four people were killed and 11 others injured after a UPS wide-body cargo plane crashed and erupted into a massive fireball shortly after takeoff on Tuesday from Louisville, Kentucky, authorities said.
Dick Cheney, a driving force behind the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 who was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines hit 46 on Tuesday, including six crew of a military helicopter that crashed during the powerful storm that unleashed heavy rains and floods across the central region.
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