Under pressure, of course, from the Biden regime.
“Israeli government approves Hamas hostage deal, short-term cease-fire in Gaza,” by Margaret Brennan, Kathryn Watson, and Tucker Reals, CBS News, November 22, 2023:
The Israeli government approved a deal early on Wednesday that will see the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas, the government said in a statement. The decision came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his war cabinet to discuss the terms of the deal following recent progress in negotiations in Doha, Qatar.
“The Government of Israel is obligated to return home all of the hostages. Tonight, the Government has approved the outline of the first stage of achieving this goal, according to which at least 50 hostages — women and children — will be released over four days, during which a pause in the fighting will be held,” the statement said, adding that “the release of every additional ten hostages will result in one additional day in the pause.”
Hamas’ leadership issued a statement on Telegram saying it had agreed to the deal, which it said included a “cease-fire from both parties.” The group, long designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the U.S. and many other nations, also thanked Qatar and Egypt for assisting with the negotiations.
According to a senior Biden administration official, three American hostages are expected to be among the 50 women and children released by Hamas in a first wave.
The agreement is expected to be implemented 24 hours after it was finalized, which would be early Thursday morning in the Middle East, the official said.
Hamas said on Telegram that the terms of the deal included the release of 50 Israeli women and children hostages in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons. It said it also required a cessation of all air traffic over southern Gaza, and air traffic over northern Gaza for six hours every day of the pause in fighting, and that “hundreds of trucks carrying humanitarian, relief, medical and fuel aid” would be brought into all areas of the Gaza Strip “without exception, north and south.”…
Netanyahu stressed in his statement before the meeting that the short pause would not mean an end to the war.
“There is a lot of nonsense out there to the effect that after the pause to return our hostages, we will stop the war. Then let me make it clear: We are at war — and will continue the war,” he said. “We will continue the war until we achieve all of our war aims: To eliminate Hamas, return all of our hostages and our missing, and ensure that there is no element in Gaza that threatens Israel.”…
Rick Olsha says
Big mistake! what we do to save our people ! AM ISRAEL CHAI
Walter Sieruk says
Since Joe Biden has a hand in the “ceasefire ” the end result of it will be a disaster.
For all any “ceasefire” would do is to give time for the jihadists ,who belong to that murderous jihad entity Hamas, to regroup and then viciously attack Israel again and viciously murder her people.
Troybeam says
A Huge mistake, was not the bombing of the IDF station enough to show Israel that Hamas can never be trusted.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
From what I read, the “pause” is just to allow hostage releases/exchanges, and the more hostages Hamas releases, the longer the pause will be. I just hope Israel resumes operations once they get back all their hostages – the living ones
mgoldberg says
Under pressure from almost everyone. Had they not, they would be accused of murdering their own people. It won’t actually help but prolong this war against hamas