The Israeli cabinet approved an agreement that will see how Hamas the remaining hostages, which take place in Gaza, in exchange for about 2,000 prisoners, which is the main step to end the two -year war that killed tens of thousands of people and destabilized the wider Middle East.
The coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved overnight, about a day after the negotiators on the warring parties reached an agreement in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
The agreement is based on the plan presented by US President Donald Trump at the end of last month and watched the days of interviews mediated by Americans, as well as Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. The US Department in the Middle East Steve Witkoff said on Friday for Hamas on Friday 72 hours when it is hostage.
The identities of the Palestinian prisoners to be liberated in the swap are still completed. It is not expected that it will be among them that among them one day as a potential leader of the Palestinian state, which was offered as a potential leader of the Palestinian state offered as a potential leader of the Palestinian state offered as a potential leader of the Palestinian state. Israel has been imprisoned for more than two decades.
In most Gaza and Witkoff, it is now a ceasefire and said that Israeli troops have begun to withdraw from their positions. Yet it is still fighting in some areas, with the Israeli forces on Thursday hit the Hamas cell in Northern Gaza and the Palestinian militant group said that four people were killed. It wasn’t clear if they quoted the same incident.
The Israeli army said the soldier was killed on Thursday afternoon by a sniper fire in northern Gaza.
Trump said that the hostage – Israel believes that 20 out of 48 is still alive – will be released on Monday or Tuesday. It is expected to go to Israel to hand over.
Jared Kushner, the brother-in-law of the President, and Witkoff traveled to Sharm El-Sheikh for the last phases of the hostage negotiations. Then they went to Israel and took part in the cabinet on Thursday evening, which is a sign of Trump’s determination to see how it is approved.
In general, the Israelis and Palestinians welcomed an agreement and on Thursday there were celebrations in Israel and Gaza. Many of the 2.2 million people living in Gaza were displaced during a conflict that was killed by more than 67,000 of them, according to the Ministry of Health Hamas, and destroyed their homeland. Israel lost more than 450 soldiers in the fight.
Negotiators still have a lot of challenges that need to be overcome to ensure that the ceasefire is maintained. Hamas – has described the US terrorist organization, the European Union and others – has to agree to determine its weapons or officially say that it will not have any role in the future Gaza administration, which set Trump’s plan.
There is little clarity to run Gaza. The US proposal says the “Peace Council”, chaired by Trump and, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, will be supervised by the Palestinian Technocratic Committee, which will be responsible for public services.
Yet, the US, European countries, the Arab world and the like Turkey, but all welcomed the agreement as the best opportunity to end the conflict that Hamas launched on October 7, 2023 and killed 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250.
Israeli assets obtained from the prospects of peace. Israeli Shekel is at a three -year maximum and this week by 1.2% compared to the dollar, one of the best performances around the world. Israeli bonds and stocks also increased.
“We have been on significant development in the last two years,” Netanyahu said. “During these two years, we fought to achieve our war goals, and the central of our war goals was to return our hostages, all hostages, alive and dead. And we are going to achieve it.”
In addition to the release of the imprisoned Palestinians, Israeli troops are to resign in the stages until they are close to the bumper zone within the gazetus. The Israeli government will allow an increase in assistance through UN agencies and other international bodies.
“We and our partners are ready to move-nine,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday. “We have expertise, distribution networks and community relationships.”
Two higher American officials who spoke to reporters on Thursday evening on the condition of anonymity, said there were two phases to agree on the agreement – the release of hostages and what they called “almost permanent ceasefire” to solve other problems. These include the elimination of Hamas’s weapon, creating a new Gaza government and full of Israeli forces.
According to US officials, the US Central Command, which oversees the US forces in the Middle East, will have 200 soldiers on the ground to observe the Gaza ceasefire agreements.
The US acknowledges that there are many ways to go wrong. However, Trump is optimistic about the expansion of Abraham’s agreements signed in his first term, which has seen countries, such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, normalize links with Israel. The war and suffering of the Palestinians were enraged by the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. The kingdom was close to the formally recognition of Israel on the eve of the conflict.
Hamas said that the hostage occurred “the end of the gaza war” and “ensuring the withdrawal of the occupation forces”. He thanked the mediators and, in a remarkable shift in the tone, said he appreciated “the efforts of US President Donald Trump”.
Nevertheless, the US and others called on to ensure that Israel does not break any conditions and signals its alertness.
The conflict had consequences far beyond Gaza, when Israel attacked Iranian militias in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Qatar. In June, she also fought with the 12 -day Air War against Iran, which saw that the US nuclear places would strike the Republic of Islamic.
The UN -supported monitor has declared famine in Gaza parts, while another panel supported by New York said that Israel had committed genocide, the Netanyahu government denies something.
Israeli isolation increased what the war continued. Many key allies, including Great Britain, France and Canada, resisted that about two weeks ago it recognized Palestinian statehood. Some EU members, the largest business partner of Israel, demanded sanctions against the country’s government.
In an interview with Fox, Trump said this week that he had told Netanyahu that Israel “could not fight the world – and understands it very well.”
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