The first phase of the truce ends early in March and details of a planned subsequent phase have not been agreed.
The military said a tank division will be sent in to the West Bank city of Jenin, the first such deployment to the territory in 20 years.
Armed masked fighters escort the captives onto stages adorned with slogans. The hostages have spoken and waved in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “humiliating ceremonies”.
In the seventh such transfer, Hamas released six Israeli captives on Saturday but Israel put off the planned release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
Naim said the mediators, “especially the Americans”, must pressure Israel’s government “to implement the agreement as it is and immediately release our prisoners.”
Israeli tanks in Jenin
Israel vowed to destroy Hamas after its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war. The attack resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 people, and Israel’s retaliation killed more than 48,000, according to figures from both sides.
Alongside the Gaza war -- which displaced almost the entire population of 2.4 million -- violence has also soared in the West Bank.
The United Nations has said the military activities have led to “forced displacement” of 40,000 Palestinians from Jenin and other refugee camps.
In the West Bank as well as in Gaza, families of Palestinian prisoners had waited with uncertainly into the night on Saturday, hoping for their release.
“If my heart were made of iron, it would have melted and shattered. Every day, I have been waiting for this moment,“ she said.
The six Israelis released Saturday were the last group of living hostages set to be freed under the truce’s first phase.
“I saw the look on his face. He’s calm, he knows he’s coming back home... He’s a real hero,“ said Wenkert’s friend Rory Grosz.
A sixth hostage, Hisham al-Sayed, 37, was later released in private and taken back to Israeli territory, the military said.
Hamas said they freed Sayed in private to “honour and respect” Palestinians inside Israel.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk condemned the “parading of bodies” during a ceremony in which coffins, with pictures of the dead attached, were displayed on a slogan-bedecked stage.
Hamas admitted a possible “mix-up of bodies”, and late Friday handed over more human remains, which the Bibas family said had been identified as the mother’s.
Forensics expert Chen Kugel, however, said an autopsy of their remains found “no evidence of injuries caused by a bombing”.
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