Mediators have set a midnight deadline for Hamas to respond to the “final” draft of a hostage-ceasefire agreement, per Channel 12. Hamas has reportedly provided Qatari mediators with a list of living hostages, as demanded by Israel. This list is believed to have been reviewed by Israel. Key details of the agreement: All 34 individuals on a previously published list of women, children, and elderly or ill men will be released in the first phase. The first phase will last 42 days, with hostages to be freed starting one week after the truce begins. Negotiations for the second phase will begin 16 days after the truce takes effect, focusing on releasing male hostages under 50. Hamas’s demand for an “end of the war” is expected to be rephrased as a “permanent ceasefire” in the agreement.
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