Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy will be freed on Saturday, the militants said. Hamas prisoners’ media office said it expected 183 Palestinians to be freed in exchange.
The Israeli military said the reservist admitted to having “severely abused” Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman military detention center near the border with the Gaza Strip.
Iranian officials appear to be signaling that they are waiting for a message from President Donald Trump about whether he wants to negotiate over Tehran’s nuclear program.
The president made the remarks alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He claimed earlier in the day that Gazans had "no alternative" but to leave their homes.
“Each time Israel completes its military operations and pulls back, Hamas militants regroup and re-emerge, because there’s nothing else to fill the void,” former Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this month.
On Monday, Israel reopened roadblocks to allow more than 650,000 Palestinians waiting to cross from the south after reaching a hostage breakthrough with Hamas.