🔗 Share this article

Israel's cabinet has publicly endorsed a detailed halt in fighting arrangement that includes the release of all remaining detainees held by the militant group in the Gaza Strip, marking a major step toward terminating the destructive two-year conflict.

US Military Participation in Supervising the Truce

Senior representatives in the White House have confirmed that a American armed forces contingent of about 200 personnel will be deployed to the region to "supervise" the ceasefire after both Israel and Hamas consented to the first phase of the former President Trump leadership's peace proposal.

The responsibility will be to supervise, observe, ensure there are no breaches.

Swift Implementation Timeline

As per an Israel's spokesperson, the ceasefire should start without delay following cabinet endorsement. The Israel's military was allocated 24 hours to retreat its units to an established boundary. Afterward, the captives held in the Gaza Strip would be released within 72 hours, a government representative stated.

Key Events

• Hamas' overseas-based Gaza leader a senior Hamas official said he had obtained promises from the US and other mediators that the hostilities was concluded.
• The head of the US military's Central Command, Admiral a senior US military official, would at first have 200 personnel on the site, a top US authority confirmed.
• Egyptian, Qatari, from Turkey and likely from the UAE military officials would be incorporated in the team, the US representative noted. A additional authority clarified that "American troops are planned to go into the Gaza Strip".
• Israel's airstrikes continued in the hours before the Israeli cabinet's decision. Blasts were observed on the previous day in north the Gaza Strip, and a strike on a building in Gaza City killed at least two people and resulted in more than 40 trapped under debris, based on Palestinian emergency services.
• A minimum of 11 dead Gazan residents and another 49 who were wounded were brought at medical facilities over the past 24 hours, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry stated.
• Israel was hitting objectives that constituted a danger to its forces as they redeploy, stated an Israeli armed forces representative who communicated on the basis of non-disclosure. The militant group blasted Israel over the strike, saying that Netanyahu was attempting to "rearrange the situation and complicate" initiatives by negotiating parties to conclude the hostilities.
• 20 Israeli hostages are still considered to be living in the Gaza Strip, while 26 are believed deceased, and the whereabouts of two is unknown.
• Former President Trump administration more extensive 20-point truce initiative includes many pending questions, such as if and how the militant organization will lay down arms. But both parties appeared nearer than they have been in many months to ending the hostilities, which was triggered by Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israeli territory, in which around 1,200 people were fatally injured and 251 taken hostage, triggering an Israeli counterattack that has resulted in more than 67,000 Gazan residents killed and nearly 170,000 hurt, based on the Gaza Strip's health ministry.
• The IDF said Mordechai Nachmani, a 26-year-old reservist soldier, was killed in a Hamas marksman incident in the Gaza capital on the previous day late in the day. This happened after Israel's and Hamas delegates signed a agreement in Egypt to secure the return of the hostages, but the ceasefire component of the agreement had not yet been implemented.
• Israeli publication Haaretz has made public the names of Palestinian prisoners it believes could be liberated as part of the recent arrangement. 250 Gazan prisoners who are serving indefinite detention are projected to be freed as part of the deal, out of around 290 currently held in Israel's detention. 22 young individuals will also be released.

Worldwide Feedback

There have been no arrangements for British or EU troops to be in Gaza after the truce deal, the UK's top diplomat Yvette Cooper declared. "It is not our arrangement, there's no arrangements to do that," she stated on the current day morning.

The foreign secretary noted: "However there is an prompt initiative for the US to spearhead what is effectively like a monitoring procedure to ensure that this takes place on the site, to oversee the system with captive liberation, and also guaranteeing that this first stage is enacted, bringing the humanitarian assistance in position, but they have also made very unambiguous that they foresee the forces on the ground to be provided by bordering nations, and that is something that we do expect to occur."

The official stated she hopes the halt in fighting will be implemented "without delay". As per the top diplomat, there are worldwide talks on an "international protection unit" and the United Kingdom was carrying on to contribute in other manners, including looking at obtaining private finance into Gaza.

Civilian Reaction

Israeli citizens and Palestinian residents alike expressed joy after the halt in fighting agreement was revealed, while there was happiness but also apprehension in Gaza amid worries the new deal could collapse.