Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to eliminate Hamas in the Gaza Strip and recover all Israeli hostages still being held there, in a video message broadcast by his office on Saturday evening.

"We will destroy Hamas and get our hostages back," Netanyahu said in the message, which was presented after a new exchange involving three Israeli hostages and more than 180 Palestinian prisoners. "That's what we will do."

Before that, Netanyahu announced sending a delegation to Doha to conduct negotiations on the next stage of the truce between the Hebrew state and Hamas in Gaza, and its implementation began on January 19.

A statement from Netanyahu's office said that after a new exchange on Saturday of Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinians held by Israel, "Netanyahu ordered a delegation to be sent to Qatar, and intends to hold a security cabinet meeting on the subject upon his return from the United States on Sunday."

Hamas released today three Israeli hostages who had been held in the Gaza Strip for 16 months, while Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fifth exchange since the ceasefire agreement went into effect.

The three hostages, Or Levy, 34, Eli Sharabi, 52, and German-Israeli Ohad Ben-Ami, 56, were loaded onto trucks and carried onto a platform by Hamas fighters during a ceremony organised by the movement in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

They were then handed over to the International Red Cross, which in turn handed them over to the Israeli authorities.

In exchange for the release of the three hostages, Israel released 183 Palestinians, the Israeli Prison Service announced.