We're now receiving a report from the Israel Prison Service saying all 200 Palestinian prisoners due to be released today have been freed.

"After the conclusion of the necessary activities in the prisons and the approval of political authorities, all the terrorists were released from the Ofer and Ktziot prisons," the statement, cited by AFP and Reuters, says.

Reuters has some more detail on the news that 70 of the 200 Palestinian prisoners to be freed by Israel on Saturday would be deported outside of Gaza and the West Bank

A Palestinian official close to the talks told Reuters that some of the freed prisoners will be released into Egypt. Some of those will stay in Egypt while others may go on to Algeria, Qatar or Turkey. They are likely to include militants convicted for deadly attacks in Israel that killed dozens of people, reports Reuters.