More than 500,000 displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza, according to the media office in Gaza.

"More than half a million displaced Palestinians have returned in the past 72 hours from the southern and central governorates to Gaza and northern governorates via Al-Rashid and Salah Al-Din roads," the media office said in a statement.

Israel began allowing displaced people to return to the north of the Gaza Strip on Monday, following a ceasefire agreement with Hamas that put a pause on 15 months of fighting.

Hamas's armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said it would release three Israeli detainees on Thursday. Israeli public radio reported that Israel would free 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 30 minors, in exchange.

Gaza's health authorities said hospitals received 63 bodies in the past 24 hours, including 59 recovered from rubble, bringing the total death toll since October 2023, to 47,417.

Meanwhile, at least ten Palestinians on Wednesday were killed and several others injured in the occupied West Bank by an Israeli strike, Palestinian health officials said.

The Israeli military said it had targeted a cell of "armed terror operatives".

The Palestinian health ministry added that Israeli forces killed two people in separate overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, including one at a refugee camp in Jenin, where the Israeli military is conducting a major offensive. (Agencies)