Deal reached for vital truce extension in Gaza
Middle East Monitor reported on November 27 that there will be a two-day extension to the truce in Gaza.
The truce agreement between Israel and the Gaza-controlling militants Hamas was originally four days and was in exchange for the captives held by the Palestinian group to be released.
The deal also allowed much needed humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave where over 15,000 have been slaughtered in seven weeks of bloodshed and the IDF blasts have also resulted in the displacement of around 1.6 million out of Gaza’s 2.2 million population.
Following a truce extension, a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter),“An agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian truce for an additional two days in the Gaza Strip.” .
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The original deal was reached after weeks of negotiations between Israel, Hamas and the United States and mediated by Qatar.
It has been reported that the extension agreement would also include the release of a further 20 hostages taken by Hamas in addition to the release of 60 Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli dungeons.
On a phone call with a Reuters journalist, a Hamas official affirmed that, “An agreement has been reached with the brothers in Qatar and Egypt to extend the temporary humanitarian truce by two more days, with the same conditions as in the previous truce.” .
Although, there is a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, British newspaper, The Telegraph reported that 7 were killed in the West Bank, a territory under illegal Israeli occupation since 1967, on the same day of the truce extension announcement.
Middle East Monitor/ Reuters/ The Telegraph
