Israel’s government has approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release plan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says in a statement.
“The government has just approved the framework for the release of all the hostages — both the living and the deceased,” the statement reads.
Donald Trump says Israeli hostages could be released on “Monday or Tuesday”.
The US President’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, attended the Israeli cabinet meeting and sat alongside Benjamin Netanyahu.
The first phase of a deal was signed by Israel and Hamas earlier today in Egypt.
As well as the ceasefire and hostages, the first phase of an agreement would also see Israel release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners; Israeli troops beginning to withdraw from parts of Gaza; and hundreds of trucks of aid a day entering Gaza.
Trump himself expects to head to the Middle East on Sunday once the agreement gets the nod from the Israeli government, and a ceasefire would go into force.
The military will pull back from the frontline, and the clock starts ticking towards the release of the hostages in a few days’ time.
The UN is poised to begin sending much more aid into Gaza, where famine has been declared in some areas.
Far-right members of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition have long opposed any deal with Hamas and said they’d vote against it. One of them warned he would push to topple Netanyahu’s government unless the Palestinian militant group was ultimately dismantled.
The Trump plan calls for Hamas to disarm, although it has always refused to do so. It’s main concern in talks thus far is that Israel will go back to war as soon as the hostages are freed.
A senior Hamas official has said today that the group received guarantees from the United States, Arab mediators, and Turkey that the war in Gaza has permanently ended.
Source: BBC
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