A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been confirmed by the United States and Qatar, pausing the devastating 15-month war in Gaza and clearing the way for dozens of hostages to go home. Any deal still needs the approval of Israel’s Cabinet.
So what happens now?
This information is based on multiple news reports outlining the timeline following the ceasefire, which is set to take effect this Sunday. Additional details will be provided as the Israeli government releases further information to the public.
FIRST PHASE STARTS ON SUNDAY
- Thirty-three Israeli hostages, including women, children and civilians over the age of 50 will be released over a 42 day period. The hostages to be freed first will include female civilians, followed by female soldiers, men over the age of 50, and those who are infirm.
- The release schedule indicates that the first three hostages will be freed on the initial day of the deal’s implementation, with four more to follow on the seventh day. Subsequent releases will involve three hostages every seven days, culminating with the release of the final 14 in the last week of the phase.
- According to the a document released by Hamas, Israel will release 1,000 Palestinians who were arrested on October 8, 2023, but were not involved in Hamas’ attack on Israel the day before.
- Israeli reports state that this includes at least 250 individuals described as having “blood on their hands.”
- Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza’s population centers to areas no more than 700 meters (2,297 feet) inside Gaza’s border with Israel.
- Israel will allow civilians to return to their homes in Northern Gaza and allow a surge of aid into the enclave of up to 600 trucks per day.
- Israel will allow wounded Palestinians to leave Gaza for treatment, and will open the Rafah crossing with Egypt seven days after the start of the implementation of the first phase.
- Israeli forces will reduce their presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, the border area between Egypt and Gaza, and then withdraw completely no later than the 50th day after the deal comes into effect.
SECOND PHASE
- If determined that the conditions have been met for a second phase, Hamas will release all remaining living hostages, mostly male soldiers, in return for the freeing of more Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons.
- Israel would initiate its “complete withdrawal” from Gaza.
THIRD PHASE
- Should the conditions of the second stage be met, bodies of the remaining hostages will be handed over in return for a three- to five-year reconstruction plan to be conducted under international supervision.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
13 Responses
This plan sucks! Wait for Trump to get in office and get a better deal! I can’t believe Israel fell for this.
Basically Hamas won the war and over 500 soldiers died in vain
Thanks but no thanks to Bibi Biden or Trump
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Unfortunately many frum Jews don?t see the great churbon that is happening
Daweed, this is Trump’s deal
A) Wasn’t Israel insisting they could not withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor?
B) Anything relying on “international supervision” is basically worthless.
From day one, it was clear that the only release of hostages would be with prisoner swap. I wonder how many hundreds or even thousands of Gazans the IDF “arrested” purely for an eventual prisoner swap. For Hamas, it is a PR victory all the same. For Israel, it is cheap bargaining chips…. Funny why no one mentions this…
All the Israeli young soldiers who died in Gaza. did they die for nothing? We are back to where we started now?
Crazy deal. Israelis are always the losers. Now the freed animals who will return to Gaza will start again.
The war should have never happened. Most of the hostages are not alive. The ones who are alive suffered gehinnom. We lost over 800 soldiers, and thousands are maimed for life. For what? What have we gained with this war? What did we gain by killing a few thousand terrorists? There are thousands new ones in the making.
Daas Torah was not consulted before going to war.
There’s no citizen in favor of this deal. Somebody is getting bribed.
To: Yehoshua:
You have an interesting comment there. It does look like that Israel is about to free some scary prisoners. Only some of them are cheap chips.
It is pretty obvious that some of the commenters are not perfecting the Mitzva of
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If it was your sister in the hands of the Nazis and you had a way to get her freed through a prisoner swap, would you think twice?
Right now in Gaza , Lebanon, Syria , Iran, Iraq, Turkey there are about 1 billion terrorists on the loose, if we free 300 terrorists, let us do the math– that will equal
1,000,000,300.
Some of the prisoner swap are not scary terrorists.
The best way to fight this war is by making peace amongst each other, judging another Yid in a favorable manner and making sure not to embarrass another Yid through a group Whatsapp chat.
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I pray Israel has an ace up Her sleeve, surely they arnt this stupid to trust savages.
I pray Israel has an ace up her sleeve.
Rif- are you daas torah? I haven’t heard a single quote from the gedolim condemning the war. not going to war is quite possibly the most brainless idea I’ve ever heard