The Israeli army says the ceasefire in Gaza is in effect

An Israeli security source told CBS News on Friday that 600 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are scheduled to enter Gaza in the coming days as the ceasefire takes effect.

The security source said that the trucks will be from United Nations agencies, accredited international organizations, the private sector and donor countries.

The aid will consist mainly of “food, medical equipment and shelter equipment, in addition to fuel to operate basic systems and cooking gas.”

The source told CBS News: “Residents will be allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing in coordination with Egypt, after security approval from Israel and under the supervision of a delegation from the European Union.”

A spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs told CBS News on Friday that aid has not yet been allowed to flow extensively into the war-torn Palestinian enclave. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) also said there was no increase in aid flows into Gaza early Friday.

Large columns of smoke rose into the Gaza sky on Friday morning, and CBS News correspondent Deborah Bata said that Israeli bombs continued to fall on Palestinian territories until the final hours before the army announced that the ceasefire had entered into force.

Israeli officials said on Thursday that the ceasefire would go into effect as soon as the government approved the agreement, which came late Thursday evening, but the explosions continued for hours after that.

An Israeli army spokesman said in a statement in Arabic addressed to Gaza residents on Friday that “the Israeli Defense Forces will remain stationed in specific areas within the Gaza Strip.”

The spokesman said: “Do not approach Israeli army forces in these areas until further notice. Approaching these forces exposes you to grave danger.”

An Israeli official told CBS News that Hamas will release all the hostages it is holding by noon local time on Monday, which is 5 a.m. ET.

President Trump said Thursday that all remaining Israeli hostages, including the bodies of deceased hostages held in Gaza, will likely be released “Monday or Tuesday” as part of the peace deal.

Israeli officials believe there are still 48 people detained in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive.

The Israeli military said Friday that a ceasefire in Gaza went into effect at noon local time (5 a.m. ET) and that Israeli forces had begun withdrawing from parts of Gaza as part of the first phase of President Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end the two-year-old war and repatriate the remaining Israeli hostages.

The Israeli army said in a statement on Friday, “Since 12:00 noon, IDF forces began positioning themselves along the updated deployment lines in preparation for the ceasefire agreement and the return of the hostages.”

A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office told CBS News partner BBC News that Israeli forces will withdraw to a line that leaves them in control of 53% of Gaza in the first phase of the plan.

President Trump said on Wednesday on his Truth Social platform that Israel “will withdraw its forces to an agreed-upon line” as a first step toward a 20-point peace proposal to end the war in Gaza.