The agreement reached on January 15 will officially enter into force this Sunday at 8:30 a.m. Gaza time and will be carried out in three phases. The crisis leaves a balance of more than 45,000 dead
After 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, which leaves more than 45,000 dead. Both countries reached an agreement on January 15, which will be carried out in three phases. Officially the ceasefire will come into effect this Sunday, January 19 at 8:30 a.m. Gaza time. The pact was achieved with the mediation of the United States, Egypt and Israel.
Pending what happens in the next few hours, the agreement is divided into three phases. The first lasts 42 days and begins with the release of hostages. The second would begin to be negotiated on the 16th day of the first, if the agreements progress as agreed. The third phase would be negotiated, in principle, when the second has already begun.
In the first phase of the agreement it is contemplated that 33 Israeli hostages will be released, including children, women, female soldiers, men over 50 years of age, wounded and sick.
In the second, the rest of the living hostages will be released – which includes male soldiers and men under 50 – and finally, the delivery of the bodies of the dead hostages has been planned.
In exchange for the hostages, Israel will release more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, which do not include Hamas militants who participated in the October 7 attacks. collect The Country.
The agreement also indicates that the withdrawal will be gradualalthough some Israeli military units will remain in the vicinity of the border to guarantee the security of border towns and villages.
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Citizens of northern Gaza will be able to return to their homes and a mechanism will be put in place to ensure that there are no weapons in that area.
Israel will withdraw from the Netzarim corridor, a road built by Israel in central Gaza, which divides it in two. Likewise, the Rafah border crossing, between Egypt and Gaza, will gradually reactivate its activity, allowing the passage of sick or injured people.
600 trucks of humanitarian aid are expected to enter the Strip each day of the ceasefire, 50 of them with fuel and 300 assigned to the north of the territory. Before the war, around half a thousand aid trucks entered every day, according to United Nations data.
The future government of Gaza and the reconstruction of the Strip will be discussed during the third phase of the agreement, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources cited by Reuters. At the moment there are important unknowns in this regard, in particular about who will govern the enclave after the war. Israel has assured that it will not allow Hamas to remain in powerand has also rejected the Palestinian National Authority, which governs the West Bank, taking over the administration of the Strip.
The Israeli government has assured on several occasions that they will be the ones to manage the security of Gaza, something that both Hamas and the international community reject. The latter consider that the Gazans themselves should be in charge of managing the enclave. From that point, however, no details are known.
With information from the BBC
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