ICRC: Release and Transfer Operations Under Ceasefire Agreement Completed

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement documenting the completion of release and transfer operations under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement. Since October 2023, the ICRC has supported the return of 195 hostages including 35 deceased, and 3,472 detainees. The ICRC also facilitated the transfer of 360 deceased Palestinians to Gaza. These complex humanitarian operations required meticulous logistical and security planning and were undertaken strictly at the request of and in coordination with the parties and the support of mediators. A primary source document for researchers studying the prisoner and hostage exchange component of the October 2025 ceasefire, providing official ICRC documentation of the scale and character of the exchange operations it facilitated. This source is valuable for researchers studying the ceasefire's exchange framework and the ICRC's neutral intermediary role, and is the authoritative official record of the release and transfer operations completed in January 2026.