The Palestinian Ministry of Health is preparing to receive prisoners who may be released as part of an expected exchange deal between Israel and Hamas, negotiations for which have reached the final stages.

This came in a circular, on Tuesday evening, directed by the Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Hospitals and Emergency Affairs, Dr. Moatasem Mohsen, to hospital directors, asking them to prepare for the exchange deal.

The circular included, "In preparation for the prisoner exchange deal and the reception of our prisoners released from the occupation's prisons, immediate work is being done to prepare and equip an internal medicine clinic and a surgical clinic to examine, inspect and treat our imprisoned brothers and provide them with the necessary health care."

Tel Aviv is holding more than 10,400 Palestinians in its prisons, while it estimates that there are 99 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while Hamas reported that dozens of its prisoners were killed in random Israeli raids.

On Tuesday, Hamas announced that the expected agreement to exchange prisoners and end the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip had reached its "final stages," with indirect negotiations continuing in Doha.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the agreement would be announced "within hours or days."

Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari announced in a press conference that the negotiations had reached the stage of "final details" and were "the closest point" to announcing an agreement.

For more than a year, Netanyahu bought time by repeatedly talking about alleged progress toward an agreement, then backed down and went deeper into a war of extermination and displacement of the Palestinians.

The progress in the current negotiations came after intense pressure from Steve Witkoff, US President-elect Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, on Netanyahu, during a "tense meeting" between them on Saturday, according to the Hebrew website "The Times of Israel" on Monday.