Israel’s ‘security cabinet’ approves ceasefire deal
The Israeli regime’s so-called “security cabinet” has approved a ceasefire deal between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian resistance movements in the Gaza Strip, which has endured 15 months of an incessant genocidal war by the regime.
The cabinet lent its approval to the agreement on Friday, paving the way for its potential endorsement by the regime’s full cabinet, which is slated to meet later in the day.
Upon initiation of its potential implementation on Sunday, the phased-out deal would begin with a six-week truce and could eventually end the brutal military onslaught that has so far claimed the lives of 46,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas has already approved the deal, hailing the Palestinian fighters and civilians for their overcoming the regime’s aggression and prompting it to fail to achieve any of its wartime goals.
The vote was delayed after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Hamas had sought “late concessions,” which the group denied.
More than 240 Zionists were taken captive by the resistance groups last October, following which the regime launched the war.
A large number of them have been killed as a result of the Israeli military’s indiscriminate assaults on Gaza amid Tel Aviv’s insistence on keeping up the war until Hamas’ “elimination.”
The first phase of the deal’s execution is reportedly expected to feature the release of 33 of the captives in exchange for 1,977 Palestinians.
The exchange will reportedly be carried out across seven phases over the first 42 days.
The regime approved the deal after coming under monumental pressure from the families of the captives and despite far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatening that he and his party colleagues would resign from the cabinet and cause it to collapse if the agreement was approved.
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