Palestinian militant group Hamas will hand over female Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud and two other hostages before Friday, mediator Qatar said on Sunday.

Hamas said it had handed over to mediators the required information regarding the list of hostages to be released during the first phrase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Israel will allow Palestinians to cross into northern Gaza.

It “rejected any infringement on those inalienable rights, whether by settlement or annexation of land, or by the depopulation of that land of its people through displacement, encouraged transfer or the uprooting of Palestinians from their land, whether temporarily or long-term”.