Israeli regime approves Gaza ceasefire deal

The Israeli regime’s cabinet has voted to approve a ceasefire deal between Tel Aviv and Palestinian resistance movements in the Gaza Strip, after more than 460 days of genocidal war in which Israeli forces have killed more than 46,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

The office of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a statement in the early hours of Saturday morning, adding that the deal to halt the fighting with Hamas would come into effect on Sunday.

Netanyahu’s office said the regime “has approved the framework for the return of the hostages. The framework for the hostages’ release will come into effect on Sunday.”

Earlier, the Israeli regime’s so-called “security cabinet” approved the ceasefire deal in Gaza, which has endured 15 months of 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.

The phased-out deal would begin with a six-week truce and could eventually end the brutal military onslaught.

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.

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.

Lead negotiator for the US in the ceasefire talks, Brett McGurk, said the White House expected the ceasefire to start on Sunday morning.

“We have locked down every single detail in this agreement. We are quite confident … it is ready to be implemented on Sunday,” McGurk said in a television interview from the White House.

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Israel unleashed its bloody Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 46,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 110,453 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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