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Re: Qatar Arranges Israel-Hamas Fighting Pause-EXCHANGE Swop-50 Hostages/150 Prisoner
Netanyahu Says Israel Will Continue WAR Now Hostage/Peace Deal Agreed
Qatar Arranges Israel-Hamas Fighting Pause in EXCHANGE Swop -50 Hostages For 150 Prisoners Held in Israeli Jails
Israel and Hamas Agree Four-Day Ceasefire and Release of 50 Hostages Held in Gaza
Israel Will Release 150 Palestinian Prisoners From Israeli Jails - All Women and Children
BBC 22 NOV 2023
Israel soldiers transfer detained Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip
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.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron describing the Israel-Hamas agreement as “a crucial step” and urging parties to deliver the deal in full, he added:
'This pause provides an important opportunity to ensure much greater volumes of food, fuel and other life-saving aid can reach Gaza on a sustained basis.
We have already doubled our aid commitment to Palestinians this year and will work closely with the UN to ensure it reaches those who need it.'
Some more detail on the prisoners that Israel has listed for potential freedom. Although the deal appears to allow for 150 to be released, Israel’s government has named 300 people.
A BBC analysis of the list reports that “most are aged 17 or 18, with the overall age range 14-59. The majority of the detainees – 274 of 300 – are male.”
The offences they have been accused of include “attempted murder, throwing a bomb, creating an explosive or incendiary object, throwing stones, contact with a hostile organisation, grievous bodily harm and arson on nationalist grounds.”
The Times of Israel reports that the government has revealed more of the mechanism around release, with “the war cabinet of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, defence minister Yoav Gallant, and minister Benny Gantz to decide on the identity of prisoners to be released in each phase.”
It notes that “any Palestinian prisoners on the list who have not been released by the end of the exchanges will not be freed.”
That suggests an anxious period of waiting ahead for both Palestinian and Israeli families as they wait to see which hostages and detainees are cleared for return.
Hamas is thought to be holding about 240 Israelis that were abducted on 7 October.
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