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Arab sources: These are the hostage deal details

The deal will take place in three stages, according to a number of terms and exchanges. Details inside.

JAN 13, 2025 15:12

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Israel Hayom has released the details of the emerging hostage deal today (Monday), according to Israel Hayom.

In the first stage, 34 male and female hostages will be released. In exchange for them, there will be a month and a half's ceasefire, and hundreds of terrorists will be released in exchange for the hostages.

The IDF will redeploy inside the Gaza Strip and the Rafah crossing will be opened for Gazans in need of medical treatment. During the ceasefire period, the two sides will discuss unresolved issues regarding the second and third stage.

In the second stage, all remaining hostages not released in the first stage will be freed. In exchange for this, an undetermined number of terrorists will be released and the IDF will continue to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

In the third stage, the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip will begin, and arrangements for the "day after" will be put into place to govern it.

The Palestinian Authority has rejected a joint Fatah-Hamas support committee that would manage the Gaza Strip after the current conflict as proposed by Egypt, according to Palestinian sources speaking to Qatar's Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper.

According to the report, a PLO delegation visiting Cairo informed Egyptian officials that such a committee would effectively endorse Palestinian division and Gaza's isolation. The delegation reportedly presented Egyptian leaders with a written document outlining the Palestinian government's own vision for Gaza's post-war governance.

The question of "the day after" the war has been one of the key points of all hostage deal negotiations, albeit one that is not publicly discussed as much as that of the release of the hostages themselves, the number and type of Palestinian prisoners to be released, and the question of when and how the war will end.

Israel's official war aims include the collapse of Hamas' military and governmental capacity alongside the release of the hostages, and it has not officially strayed from those aims despite the ongoing negotiations for the hostages' release.

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