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The agreement calls for a pause in the fighting and for Hamas to free 50 of the captives it seized in its Oct. 7 raid on Israel. Hamas said Israel would release 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
For weeks, senior Israeli leaders were divided about whether a temporary cease-fire might help Hamas regroup and endanger the remaining hostages.
The agreement calls for a pause in fighting for at least four days and for Hamas to release at least 50 hostages. Qatar, a mediator, said the cease-fire’s start would be announced within 24 hours.
U.N. officials said 31 premature babies in precarious health were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital to a hospital further south in Gaza.
Military experts say it could take days, weeks or months for Israel to make a definitive case. Or it might never come.