Four-day ceasefire and release of 50 hostages held in Gaza agreed

Gaza hostage deal: what we know so far …

Nov 22, 2023

Good Afternoon,

Today we bring you an update about the conflict in Gaza as a truce deal seems ever closer.

What has been agreed between Israel and Hamas, why has a deal been reached now, how many hostages will be freed, and what happens next?

Fifty women and children held hostage by Hamas and other groups in Gaza since 7 October are to be released in exchange for a four-day ceasefire in a deal brokered by Qatar with the support of the US.

A US official said three Americans would be among those freed, including a girl who turns four this week, and that the first release should come by Thursday.

According to Hamas, Israel will release 150 Palestinian prisoners, all women and children, from Israeli jails and allow hundreds of aid trucks a day to cross the Rafah border with Egypt, providing humanitarian supplies to Palestinians in Gaza.

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Israel will cease air sorties in southern Gaza and restrict them to six hours a day in the north, according to the Hamas account of the deal, which also says Israeli forces will not bring military vehicles into Gaza during the ceasefire, nor try to detain anyone.

The ceasefire would be extended by a day for every 10 additional hostages released, the Israeli government said.

The agreement temporarily pauses a war that has lasted more than six weeks so far. It has cost the lives of 14,128 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the government media office in Gaza, and more than 1,200 people in Israel, most of whom were victims of the surprise Hamas cross-border attack on 7 October.

Will fighting restart once the ceasefire is over?

Hamas is likely to want to use any ceasefire to regroup, and it is possible it could seek to extend it by offering to gradually release more of the hostages. Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas, so its survival as a group would represent a victory.

The US has made clear it will not support a ground offensive in the south, unless there are much greater safeguards against civilian casualties.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, told the cabinet, in remarks that were also filmed and broadcast, that he expected fighting to restart. “We will not stop after the ceasefire,” he said.

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