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A ceasefire will allow for improved planning of operations for achieving the war’s goals — if we don’t achieve them through diplomacy or otherwise,
The Presidency affirmed its firm position of the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in and full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Presidency reiterated that it was necessary to establish an immediate ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and pave the way for the State of Palestine to assume full responsibility for the Gaza Strip as an integral part of the occupied territory."
Stressing Gaza as an integral part of Palestine, the President said in a statement The government administrative and security personnel were fully prepared to carry out their tasks to alleviate the suffering inflicted on the Gaza population, allow displaced persons to return to their houses, restore essential services to the Strip, assume responsibility for the border crossings and help commence Gaza reconstruction,
I love Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will make sure that he continues to be prime minister,
Itamar Ben Gvir, the national security minister, said in a statement Friday morning We haven’t committed to any of the delusional demands of Hamas,
the Israeli prime minister said in February last year We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it is lost,
Everything has been destroyed, children are on the streets, you can't pinpoint just one priority,
Doctors Without Borders coordinator Amande Bazerolle told AFP I will go to kiss my land,
said Nasr al-Gharabli, who fled his home in Gaza City for a camp further south I think of them, these two little redheads, and I get shivers,
said 70-year-old Osnat Nyska, whose grandchildren attended nursery with the Bibas brothers The government has approved the hostage return plan
Netanyahu's office said early Saturday morning after the cabinet held its vote I am confident and we expect that implementation will begin on Sunday,
Blinken told reporters on Thursday The first stage also includes intensifying the safe and effective entry and distribution of humanitarian aid on a large scale throughout the Gaza strip, ... rehabilitating hospitals, health centers, and bakeries, bringing in civil defense supplies and fuel, and bringing in shelter supplies for displaced persons who lost their homes due to the war."
the Qatari Foreign Ministry explained, including The first stage, which lasts 42 days, includes a ceasefire, the withdrawal and redeployment of Israeli forces outside densely populated areas, the release of hostages and exchange of prisoners and detainees, the exchange of the remains of the deceased, the return of internally displaced persons to their places of residence in the Gaza strip, and facilitating the departure of patients and wounded to recieve treatment."
The Qatari ministry wrote Many people don't like it, because it is clear that Israel is losing the ability to destroy Hamas, as we promised,
There is no other way to release the hostages, and from within Israeli society, that was very important,
the retired Major General said The best deal is the one which was not achieved,
Hamas is going to be able to claim that it survived,
We are dealing with this deal [for] more than a year, and both sides tried to achieve the best deal for themselves,
retired Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Major General Yaakov Amidror said in a discussion with reporters Thursday afternoon I hope it will happen so we'll be able to cook in our homes and make whatever food we want, without having to go to soup kitchens and exhaust ourselves for three or four hours trying to get (food) - sometimes not even making it home,
displaced Palestinian Reeham Sheikh al-Eid said No one can promise that Hamas will keep its word and execute the second stage,
Amos Harel, a military affairs columnist for the Israeli paper Haaretz, wrote on Friday
