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Summary
Israel’s security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hamas to exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners and pause the 15-month Gaza conflict for six weeks.
The agreement includes releasing 33 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners and increased humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The deal, facing opposition from Israeli far-right ministers, will next go to the full cabinet.
The ceasefire will begin Sunday, with phased releases of hostages and prisoners.
International leaders, including G7 members, welcomed the move as a step toward alleviating Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and advancing peace efforts.
They should be in the Hague. Boycott divest and sanction this racist genocidal state.
Now they can return to their peacetime ways of checks notes stealing indigenous land and killing indigenous people with “settlers” instead of “soldiers.”
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu’s hardline national security minister, who on Thursday announced that he would quit the government if it ratified the ceasefire deal
Don’t threaten me with a good time.