When will hostages in Gaza be released as part of Israel-Hamas deal?

The settlement, introduced Wednesday, was the results of weeks of tense negotiations that concerned mediation by Qatar. President Biden mentioned in a statement welcoming the deal that he would proceed to push for the discharge of all hostages.

Israeli Nationwide Safety Council Director Tzachi Hanegbi mentioned talks have been persevering with and that the discharge wouldn’t start earlier than Friday.

What is Hamas, and why did it attack Israel now?

Right here’s what we all know concerning the launch of hostages from Gaza.

• Not less than 50 hostages — girls and kids — can be launched throughout a four-day pause in combating, the Israeli authorities mentioned Wednesday.
• In flip, Israel will launch 150 Palestinian prisoners — girls and youngsters, three for every hostage. The pause in combating may very well be prolonged by a day for each extra 10 hostages launched by Hamas from Gaza after the primary group of fifty.
• Three People — two girls and a lady — are anticipated to be launched below the current settlement, a senior Biden administration official informed The Washington Submit.
• The hostages are more likely to be transferred to the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross in small numbers in Gaza who will escort them to Israeli border crossings.
• In Israel, six hospitals have been readied to obtain the hostages with a particular pediatrics unit and psychological well being counselors. The hostages and their households can be housed in devoted amenities, and the hospitals could be barred from releasing data or images to the general public, the Israeli Ministry of Well being mentioned.

Who are the Palestinian prisoners Israel is prepared to release?

Who’re the hostages being launched?

The names of the 50 hostages anticipated to be launched haven’t been shared.

The estimated 240 individuals held in Gaza are from a plurality of nations, many additionally with Israeli citizenship. About 20 Thai staff have been amongst these taken, the Thai Foreign Ministry said. They’re hoped to be among the many first launched, it said Nov. 2, after talks with Iran, Egypt and Qatar earlier than the hostage launch deal. Not all hostages are believed to be held by Hamas; smaller militant teams corresponding to Palestinian Islamic Jihad are doubtlessly answerable for some.

After the preliminary captives alternate is accomplished, there’ll nonetheless be about 190 remaining hostages in Gaza, although the deal leaves open the opportunity of additional exchanges. Israeli and U.S. officers imagine there are no less than one other 25, and maybe one other 50 or extra, girls and kids among the many hostages, with the remaining together with male civilians, feminine Israeli troopers, and as much as a number of dozen male members of the Israel Protection Forces, The Post reported Wednesday. Hamas has claimed that some hostages have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, however verifying that data has not been doable.

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Had been different hostages launched earlier?

4 hostages have been launched by Hamas for the reason that starting of the warfare, in two batches of two a few month in the past.

On Oct. 20, Americans Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter Natalie, 17, have been launched. Hamas mentioned that this was as a consequence of “humanitarian causes,” with out elaborating additional. That they had been staying with relations on the Nahal Oz, a kibbutz close to the border with Gaza, once they have been taken captive throughout Hamas’s unprecedented assault Oct. 7 that killed no less than 1,200 in Israel. Greater than 11,100 have since been killed in Gaza, in response to the Gaza Well being Ministry, which stopped releasing a depend from Nov. 10 on, citing the depth of the combating.

On Oct. 23, Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, Israeli girls of their 70s and 80s, have been launched, for “crushing humanitarian causes,” Hamas mentioned. Their husbands stay in captivity.

What number of American hostages are there?

Not less than nine Americans and one legal permanent resident are believed to be amongst these held in Gaza, The Submit reported beforehand. One is a 3-year-old child whose dad and mom have been killed within the Oct. 7 assault.

Biden mentioned that People could be amongst these freed below the newly introduced deal. “Immediately’s deal ought to deliver house extra American hostages, and I can’t cease till they’re all launched,” he mentioned in his assertion Wednesday.

Steve Hendrix contributed to this report.