Key things to know about the new Gaza deal

Israel and Hamas connected Thursday agreed a ceasefire woody to escaped the surviving hostages successful speech for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held successful Israeli jails.

Here is what we cognize truthful acold astir the statement that was reached successful indirect talks successful Egypt:

– Hostage, captive releases –

Hamas volition merchandise 20 surviving hostages successful 1 spell arsenic portion of the archetypal signifier of the deal, according to a root adjacent to the Hamas negotiating team.

Israel volition merchandise astir 2,000 Palestinian prisoners: 250 among those serving beingness sentences, and 1,700 others detained since the commencement of the war, a apical Hamas authoritative wrong Hamas told AFP, besides connected information of anonymity.

There has been nary denotation that Israel volition disclose the names of those acceptable for release.

The bureau of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the statement to unafraid the merchandise of hostages would lone instrumentality effect aft receiving furniture approval.

“Contrary to Arab media reports, the 72-hour countdown volition statesman lone aft the statement is approved successful the furniture meeting, which is expected successful the evening hours,” Netanyahu’s bureau said.

Of the 251 radical abducted during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 onslaught which sparked the war, militants inactive clasp 47 successful Gaza, including 25 the Israeli subject says are dead.

– Prisoner lists –

A cardinal constituent successful the negotiations was a database of Palestinian prisoners submitted by Hamas which it wants released from Israeli jails successful the truce’s archetypal phase.

High-profile inmate Marwan Barghouti — from Hamas’s rival, the Fatah question — is among those the radical wanted to spot released, according to Egyptian state-linked media.

Barghouti, who was sentenced to beingness successful 2004 connected execution charges and is considered a violent by Israel, often tops sentiment polls of fashionable Palestinian leaders and is sometimes described by his supporters arsenic the “Palestinian Mandela”.

– Aid –

A regular minimum of 400 trucks of assistance volition participate the Gaza Strip for the archetypal 5 days of the ceasefire, to beryllium accrued successful pursuing days, the Hamas root said.

It besides provides for the “return of displaced persons from the southbound of the Gaza Strip to Gaza (City) and the northbound immediately,” the root added.

The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said his bureau was prepared to “scale up its enactment to conscionable the dire wellness needs of patients crossed Gaza, and to enactment rehabilitation of the destroyed wellness system”.

The UN bureau for Palestinian refugees welcomed the woody arsenic a “huge relief”, and said it was acceptable to flood Gaza with desperately-needed food.

“We person capable to supply nutrient for the full colonisation for the coming 3 months,” the agency’s main Philippe Lazzarini said connected X.

– ‘Scheduled withdrawals’ –

The woody stipulates “scheduled withdrawals” of Israeli troops, the Hamas apical authoritative said, and includes “guarantees from President Trump and the mediators”.

The Israeli subject said connected Thursday it was preparing to propulsion backmost troops successful Gaza arsenic portion of the deal.

– Key questions stay –

Trump’s 20-point bid plan, connected which the indirect negotiations were based, calls for the disarmament of Hamas and for post-war Gaza to beryllium ruled by a transitional authorization headed by Trump himself.

But these points are yet to beryllium addressed.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said helium hoped the Gaza woody could pb to the constitution of an autarkic Palestinian state.

But Netanyahu and members of his furniture person repeatedly vowed to forestall this from happening.

– What next? –

The woody volition beryllium formally signed aboriginal connected Thursday successful Egypt, a root with cognition of the statement told AFP connected information of anonymity.

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