Hamas and Israel will conduct their next swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, with three Israelis, including the father of the youngest hostages, to be freed in return for 183 people held in Israeli jails.

After holding them hostage for over 15 months, militants in Gaza began releasing captives on January 19, when the first phase of a ceasefire with Israel took effect.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants have so far handed over 15 hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, many of them women and minors.

Israeli campaign group the Hostages and Missing Families Forum named the captives to be released on Saturday as Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel, who also has US citizenship, and Ofer Kalderon, who also holds French nationality.

The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed it had received the names of the three hostages to be released.

In exchange, Israel will free 183 prisoners, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club advocacy group said.

"The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183," said the Club's spokeswoman Amani Sarahneh on Friday, after previously announcing that 90 prisoners would be released from Israeli jails.

During their October 7, 2023 attack on Israel which started the Gaza war, militants abducted Siegel from the Kfar........

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