33 hostages, including women and children, including some female troops, males over 50, and the injured and ill, would be released in the first phase of the planned agreement, according to an Israeli officer who briefed reporters on it.
Negotiations on a second stage, which would see the release of the remaining hostages, who are male troops and males of military age, and the repatriation of the corpses of the dead hostages, would begin on the sixteenth day of the truce, according to Reuters.
Under the agreement, Israeli forces would stay in the border perimeter to protect Israeli border towns and villages while a phased troop pullout would take place. Following the initial days of the agreement, Israel would withdraw from portions of the Philadelphi corridor, which runs along Gaza’s southern border, and security measures would be made there.
Residents of North Gaza who are unarmed would be permitted to return, but there would be a system in place to make sure no weapons are transferred there. Israeli forces will leave central Gaza’s Netzarim corridor.
According to Reuters, the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump on January 20 is now commonly regarded as the de facto deadline for a ceasefire accord. Trump has stated that if the hostages held by Hamas are not released prior to his inauguration, there will be “hell to pay.”
According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the presence of Biden’s envoy Brett McGurk and Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in the ceasefire discussions has been “critical” because negotiators wanted to ensure that Trump would continue to support the agreement on the table.
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