Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha Troufanov are expected to return from Gaza on Saturday after Egyptian and Qatari mediators helped avert a standoff that threatened to sink a fragile ceasefire that has halted fighting for almost a month.

Hamas militants have named the next three Israeli male hostages to be released as part of a fragile ceasefire deal that had teetered in recent days amid a major dispute that raised the specter of fighting resuming in the devastated Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militant groups in Gaza said they would release hostages Iair Horn, American Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian Israeli Alexandre Sasha Troufanov on Saturday, in accordance with the terms of the ceasefire with Israel.