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A humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip will start on Friday at 07:00 (05:00 GMT), Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said.
He said the list of hostages to be released has been provided to the Israeli intelligence services, adding that the first lot of captives will be released from Gaza at 16:00 (14:00 GMT) on Friday.
A Palestinian official previously told AFP that a delay in implementation of the truce between Israeli forces and Hamas was due to "last minute" details over which hostages would be exchanged and how.
The truce, widely expected to go into force on Thursday but delayed during the night, had been put back over "the names of the Israeli hostages and the modalities of their release", said the official, who has knowledge of the negotiation process.
Lists of those to be freed had been exchanged by both sides, he added. Questions were also being raised over Red Cross access to the hostages before they would be released into Egypt, he said, and whether the Red Cross would have access to those who remained.
When the ceasefire would go into effect would be announced by mediator Qatar, "in co-ordination with the Egyptians and the Americans, in the coming hours today", he added.
Under the truce agreement, a humanitarian pause will be followed by releases of an initial 50 hostages from Israel being held in Gaza and 150 Palestinians held by Israel.
All of those to be released under the three-to-one ratio are either women or aged 18 and under.
The agreement follows weeks of an indiscriminate war carried out against the Gaza Strip by Israel, killing almost 15,000 people.
The surprise attack launched by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October killed about 1,200 people and saw around 240 taken hostage.
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