The Israeli government on Wednesday morning published the details of the hostage deal approved by the cabinet earlier in the morning. The deal was approved after a meeting that lasted about eight hours. The only party that voted against the deal was the Otzma Yehudit party.

In an extraordinary early Wednesday morning vote, Israel’s cabinet endorsed an agreement aimed at securing the release of approximately 50 hostages who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza during the terror attack on October 7.

Israel and Hamas on Tuesday appeared close to a deal to temporarily halt their devastating six-week war for dozens of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip to be freed in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Despite opposition from far-right parties Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, which together account for six cabinet votes, the government is expected to secure a majority within the 38-person cabinet to approve a hostage deal.

Details of the near-complete hostage deal between Israel and Hamas will feature a 4-day pause in fighting in the Gaza Strip beginning Thursday in exchange for the release of 12 hostages per day, mostly women and children, by Hamas, according to Israeli security official

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi met with IDF reserve soldiers in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. “You’re doing excellent work, very impressive,” he said. “You came in strong here and Hamas’s Beit Chanoun battalion suffered a serious blow.” “We still have a long road ahead of us.

Numerous media reports in Israel and around the world on Tuesday are claiming that a hostage deal is imminent. Israeli sources are saying that “it’s possible that a deal will be finalized within hours.” Maj. Gen.

The IDF on Monday night announced the deaths of 2 more soldiers killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip They are: Captain (res.) Arnon Moshe Avraham Benvenisti Vaspi, 26, a combat officer in the Givati ​​Brigade Sgt. Ilya Senkin, 20, a soldier in the Rotem Battalion, Givati ​​Brigade.

Ismail Haniyeh, who leads Hamas from his comfy residence in Qatar, said on Monday night that Israel and his terror group are nearing a deal for a “truce” in the ongoing Gaza war.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday that its president, Mirjana Spoljaric, visited Qatar for a meeting with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.