A list of the 33 hostages due to be freed in the first stage of a ceasefire was released on Friday morning as Israel’s Security Cabinet met to discuss the ceasefire. In the background, the youngest hostage, Kfir Bibas, turns two on Saturday.

The list does not imply the order of their release or their condition. Authorities believe most of hostages listed are alive.

As returning hostages are received by soldiers and families updated each day of the ceasefire, the Prime Minister’s office will announce the identities of the returnees.

Among the names on the list are Yarden Bibas, his wife Shiri, and their children, Ariel, and Kfir, the youngest hostage who was seven months old when the family was taken captive from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Shiri and the children were supposed to be released along with 105 other women and children during the temporary ceasefire of November 2023. Kfir’s second birthday is on Saturday.

The 33 hostages to be released in the first phase are:

1. Liri Albag
2. Itzik Elgarat
3. Karina Ariev
4. Ohad Ben Ami
5. Ariel Bibas
6. Yarden Bibas
7. Kfir Bibas
8. Shiri Silberman-Bibas
9. Agam Berger
10. Romi Gonen
11. Daniella Gilboa
12. Emily Damari
13. Sagui Dekel-Chen
14. Yair Horn
15. Omer Wenkert
16. Alexander Trufanov
17. Arbel Yehud
18. Ohad Yahalomi
19. Eliya Cohen
20. Or Levy
21. Naama Levy
22. Oded Lifshitz
23. Gadi Moshe Mozes
24. Avera Avraham Mengistu
25. Shlomo Mansour
26. Keith Siegel
27. Tsachi Idan
28. Ofer Calderon
29. Shoham Tal
30. Doron Steinbrecher
31. Omer Shem-Tov
32. Hisham al-Sayed
33. Eli Sharabi

The 33 will be freed in exchange for 110 Palestinian terrorists serving life sentences in Israeli prisons.

Following the Security Cabinet’s discussions, the deal is to be ratified by the full Cabinet. That meeting is due to be held on Saturday night, but ministers were reportedly trying to arrange to vote by phone before the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown on Friday. It wasn’t clear why the government meeting could not be originally scheduled earlier.

The ceasefire would potentially lead to the release of hundreds of Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israel. While many would be sent back to their homes in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, high-profile prisoners will be deported. After Israeli authorities publish a list of prisoners to be released, terror victims will have an opportunity to file legal petitions.

The most contentious aspect of the agreement is that the fate of the remaining 65 hostages will be determined by negotiations to begin on the 16th day of the ceasefire. Critics say the phased approach condemns hostages not freed in the beginning to open-ended captivity and undermines Israel’s war gains.

At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 95 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.