Four-day humanitarian pause to begin on Thursday morning, Hamas official says
A four-day humanitarian pause in fighting, agreed under the recently brokered hostage release deal, will begin Thursday at 10 a.m. local time, senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera.
He added that most of the hostages released will be foreign nationals.
CNBC could not independently verify the report.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen had earlier said that his country expects to receive the first captives under the deal terms on Thursday. He did not specify the time.
Following mediation by Egypt, Qatar and the U.S., Israel and Hamas struck an agreement involving a limited four-day humanitarian truce, along with the release of 50 hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 in exchange for the same number of Palestinian prisoners.
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Palestinian leader welcomes hostage release deal
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the international community to stop Israel’s aggression and bombardments in the Gaza Strip.
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President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has welcomed a humanitarian pause and hostage release agreement brokered between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, thanking mediators Qatar and Egypt, an official said.
“We renew the call for a comprehensive cessation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, the introduction of humanitarian aid, and the implementation of a political solution based on international legitimacy, leading to an end to the occupation and the Palestinian people gaining their freedom, independence, and sovereignty,” Palestinian Authority aide Hussein al-Sheikh said on social media, in a statement attributed to the leadership and Abbas.
Abbas’ administration, based in Ramallah in the West Bank, has received the visits and support of several top international officials since the start of the conflict, amid efforts to build longer-standing peace.
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