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As coordinated by the parties to the agreement and the mediators, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at 8:30 am on Sunday, January 19, local time in Gaza. We advise the inhabitants to take precaution, exercise the utmost caution, and wait for directions from official"
Majed Al Ansari’s post on X (formerly Twitter) said 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 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 I am confident and we expect that implementation will begin on Sunday,
Blinken told reporters on Thursday 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 Life has become an unbearable hell,
said resident Jomaa Abed al-Aal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was informed by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a deal to release the hostages,
his office said in a statement 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 We have been making efforts to lift the sanctions from the first day of the [Assad] regime’s fall, and we do not want Syria to collapse,
The sanctions were imposed on the Assad regime and are not logical now. The new administration is not expected to address international concerns and work for its people under sanctions simultaneously,
A humanitarian protocol has been reached regarding the mechanism for delivering aid to prevent blackmail,
This meeting was expected to take place on Saturday, but pressure from mediators has made them start today,
We reject Israel’s reckless act of incursion in the buffer zone in Syria. We talked with Ahmad al-Sharaa and affirmed the necessity of Israeli withdrawal and that the incursion should not create a new reality,
This is the ceasefire agreement I introduced last spring.”
No wonder the outgoing president said, as he announced the latest breakthrough Isn't it amazing how one man achieved in one year what millions of people couldn't do in decades
she asks rhetorically, ticking off the effects I think the possibility is very much there and specifically when other crossings will be opened up,
Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told a press briefing in Geneva The agreement is very vague and there are a lot of places where Israel can – and will – manoeuvre its way out of it,
The sad history of Gaza shows us there is a cycle of escalation and deescalation because there is no political framework to address root causes,
The Netanyahu today is not the one of the past. He’s more fearful and he’s unable to make decisions, which has led to strategic paralysis,
This [deal] will provide immediate relief by getting humanitarian aid in and to provide for a release of hostages and prisoners. The [deal] is more of an immediate pause than a long-term solution,
