BREAKING: Awaiting #Israel Cabinet Vote On Tentative Hostage Deal With #Hamas – #IsraelHamasWar—-According to report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presently conveying special Cabinet meetings today asking his government to back a deal to clear the way for the release of some of the hostages that Palestinian Hamas militants took to the Gaza Strip during an Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
The Genius Media Nigeria report that the vote from Israel’s government meeting is presently going on a tentative agreement with Hamas.
In a recorded message at the start of a government meeting, Netanyahu vowed the war would continue until Israel achieved all its goals. A U.S. official had said the deal will include a four- or five-day ceasefire, the first pause in six weeks of an Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
Speaking after presenting the still-undisclosed details of the deal to his war cabinet and the wider national security cabinet, Netanyahu told his government it was a difficult decision but the right decision and would enable Israel to go on fighting Hamas.
He said the intervention of U.S. President Joe Biden had helped to improve the deal so that it included more hostages for fewer concessions.
At least 50 journalists, 45 of them Palestinian, have been killed since the war began, the Committee to Protect Journalists says. The first four weeks of the conflict were the deadliest month for journalists since the organization began tracking fatalities in 1992, it says.
Almost all of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million is in urgent need of food aid, the United Nations’ World Food Programme.
More than 1.6 million people have been displaced in Gaza, and health officials there say the death toll has surpassed 13,000 after weeks of Israeli attacks. The Israel Defense Forces estimate 1,200 people were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, with 236 people still held hostage in Gaza.
The number of hostages has been revised downward to reflect those who have been found dead.
This online news paper gathered that Israel will not exchange Palestinian prisoners for non-Israeli hostages
