A ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to extend into its fifth day as both sides finalized their deal fourth release of prisoners from Gaza in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons under an original four-day ceasefire deal, mediators said the process would continue.

Qatar, which along with Egypt has facilitated indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, said there was an agreement to extend by two days the original four-day ceasefire that was due to expire on Monday.

“We have an extension … for two more days,” Qatar’s ambassador to the United Nations, Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, told reporters after a closed session of the U.N. Security Council on Monday, saying both sides would release more people .

“This is a very positive step,” said Al-Thani.

While the Israeli government had not yet officially confirmed the ceasefire extension early Tuesday morning, Israeli Army Radio reported, citing the Prime Minister’s Office, that a new list of prisoners had been received and were expected to be released later in the day.

Israel has announced that it will extend the ceasefire by one day for every 10 more prisoners released by Hamas.

Local news site Axios reported that the latest list included the names of 10 Israeli prisoners. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli prime minister’s office.

Israel said on Monday that 11 Israelis had been returned to the country from the Gaza Strip. This brings the total number of Israeli and foreign prisoners released by Hamas as part of the ceasefire since Friday to 69.

The Israel Prisons Service said 33 Palestinian prisoners were also released on Monday from Israel’s Ofer prison in the West Bank and from a detention center in Jerusalem, bringing the total number of Palestinians released since Friday to 150.

The released Palestinian prisoners were greeted with loud cheers as the Red Cross bus in which they were traveling passed through the streets of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

The original ceasefire agreement also allowed more aid trucks into the Gaza Strip, where civilians are suffering from shortages of food, fuel, drinking water and medicine.

While U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the ceasefire extension “a breath of hope and humanity,” he said two more days was not enough time to meet aid needs in Gaza.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in a report on Monday that the four-day pause in hostilities had allowed humanitarian aid groups, particularly Red Crescent workers, to provide assistance to people across Gaza in dire need where 1.8 million people are internally displaced.

More than 14,800 people have been killed in Gaza – including about 10,000 women and children – since Israel launched its attacks on the Palestinian enclave following the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 that killed about 1,200 people.

Israel’s intensive bombing of the densely populated Gaza Strip has also resulted in 46,000 homes being destroyed and more than 234,000 damaged – about 60 percent of Gaza’s total housing stock, the UN said in the report.

Despite the apparent extension of the ceasefire for two more days, Israel remains committed to crushing Hamas militarily and has warned that the war on Gaza will resume.

The resumption is likely to see Israeli forces expand their air, land and sea offensive from the devastated northern Gaza Strip to the south of the enclave, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to seek refuge.