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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Thursday accused Hamas of backing retired of a cease-fire woody to merchandise hostages and bring a intermission to much than a twelvemonth of warring successful the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu's bureau said Thursday his Cabinet won't conscionable to ballot connected the Gaza cease-fire deal until Hamas backs down from what it called a "last infinitesimal crisis."
Netanyahu's bureau accused Hamas, without elaborating, of trying to spell backmost connected portion of the statement successful an effort "to extort past infinitesimal concessions."
The Israeli Cabinet was acceptable to ratify the woody Thursday.
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President Biden joined Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for a Wednesday quality league announcing that the woody would rotation retired successful 3 phases.
Biden said the archetypal signifier volition past six weeks and "includes a afloat and implicit cease-fire, withdrawal of Israeli forces from each the populated areas of Gaza, and the merchandise of a fig of hostages held by Hamas, including women and aged and the wounded. And I'm arrogant to accidental Americans volition beryllium portion of that hostage merchandise and signifier 1 arsenic well. And the vice president and I cannot hold to invited them home," helium said.
In exchange, Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Biden said, and Palestinians "can besides instrumentality to their neighborhoods successful each areas of Gaza, and a surge of humanitarian assistance into Gaza volition begin."
Izzat al-Rishq, a elder Hamas official, said the militant radical "is committed to the ceasefire agreement, which was announced by the mediators."
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Netanyahu's bureau had earlier accused Hamas of backtracking connected an earlier knowing that helium said would springiness Israel a veto implicit which prisoners convicted of execution would beryllium released successful speech for hostages.
Under the presumption of the cease-fire deal, 33 hostages are acceptable to beryllium released implicit the adjacent six weeks successful speech for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Israeli forces volition propulsion backmost from galore areas, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would beryllium capable to instrumentality to what's near of their homes, and determination would beryllium a surge of humanitarian assistance.
The remainder of the hostages, including antheral soldiers, are to beryllium released successful a 2nd that volition beryllium negotiated during the first. Hamas has said it volition not merchandise the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and a afloat Israeli withdrawal, portion Israel has vowed to support warring until it dismantles the radical and to support open-ended information power implicit the territory.
Netanyahu has faced large home unit to bring location the scores of hostages, but his far-right conjugation partners person threatened to bring down his authorities if helium makes excessively galore concessions. He has capable absorption enactment to o.k. an agreement, but doing truthful would weaken his conjugation and marque aboriginal elections much likely.
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Meanwhile, Palestinians successful Gaza reported dense Israeli bombardment overnight arsenic radical were celebrating the ceasefire deal. Gaza's Health Ministry said astatine slightest 48 radical were killed successful Israeli strikes betwixt midday Wednesday and Thursday morning. Around fractional of the dormant were women and children, Zaher al-Wahedi, caput of the ministry's registration department, told The Associated Press. He said the toll could emergence arsenic hospitals update their records.
Mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. are expected to conscionable successful Cairo connected Thursday for talks connected implementing the agreement. They person spent the past twelvemonth holding indirect talks with Israel and Hamas that yet resulted successful a woody aft repeated setbacks.
President-elect Donald Trump's Mideast envoy joined the talks successful the last weeks, and some the outgoing medication and Trump's squad are taking recognition for the breakthrough.
Israel's violative has killed implicit 46,000 radical successful Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Health Ministry. it does not accidental however galore of the dormant were militants. Israel says it has killed implicit 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence.
The warfare has destroyed immense areas of Gaza and displaced immoderate 90% of its colonisation of 2.3 cardinal people, according to the United Nations.
Fox News Digital’s Efrat Lachter and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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