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Dr. Hossam Abu Sufaya, director of the Kamel Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is on the list of detainees set to be released back to Gaza, according to a person briefed by Israeli officials who spoke anonymously in order to discuss the matter.
Dr. Abu Sufaya was detained 10 months ago after weeks of sustained Israeli attacks on his hospital that killed patients and staff and wounded him.
He became a prominent figure in the war for refusing to leave his patients or the hospital grounds, even after his son was killed in an Israeli drone strike and buried in the hospital's courtyard.
Israel had been holding him without charge after raiding the hospital, which is among several now destroyed.
The World Health Organization and prominent rights groups had called for his release and that of several hundred other Palestinian medics.
There were sporadic celebrations overnight after Trump's announcement, but the past two years of war in Gaza are a nightmare that continues.
Ahmed Ait says he doesn't have faith that this is the beginning of a lasting peace, as Trump says.
He says how can he be happy after all the blood that's been shed?
How can he be happy when he's still living in a tent with his children displaced from their home?
Aid says he's lost more than 150 relatives in Israeli attacks on Gaza and that people are living on the streets without food or water.
Under the plan, Israel must lift restrictions to allow hundreds of trucks of aid in per day.