{"id":2104704,"date":"2023-11-21T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-hamas-indicate-hostages-deal-is-close\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:09:20","slug":"israel-and-hamas-indicate-hostages-deal-is-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-hamas-indicate-hostages-deal-is-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Hamas Indicate Hostages Deal Is Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-and-hamas-indicate-hostages-deal-is-close%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2104704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Leader of Hamas \u2063Signals Progress in\u2063 Truce Agreement with\u2062 Israel<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u2064 leader of Hamas said on Tuesday \u2064that a truce agreement with\u200b Israel was close, \u200dand Prime\u200d Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he \u200dhoped for good news soon about <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostages<\/span>, the most optimistic \u200bsignals\u200d so far of\u200d a deal to pause fighting and\u2063 free captives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Hamas\u2063 Nears Truce Agreement with Israel<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hamas officials were &#8220;close to reaching a truce agreement&#8221; with Israel and the group has delivered its response to Qatari \u200dmediators,\u200d Hamas leader \u2062Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement sent to Reuters by his aide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Netanyahu said: &#8220;We are making progress. I \u2063don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s worth \u200csaying too much,\u2062 not at \u2063even this moment, but I \u2064hope there will be\u2062 good news soon,&#8221; according to remarks released by\u2064 the Israeli prime minister&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu would convene his war cabinet from 1600 GMT \u2062&#8221;in \u200blight of developments in\u200b the matter of the release of \u2064our <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostages<\/span>,&#8221; \u200chis office said, followed by meetings\u200c of his \u2062wider\u2062 security cabinet and the full cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>A source briefed\u200d on\u200d the negotiations told Reuters the long-awaited agreement, which would see\u200b the first truce of the war and the first mass \u2062release of those\u2063 held by\u200d both sides,\u2064 was in its &#8220;final stages&#8221; and &#8220;closer \u2062than it has ever\u200c been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was echoed by a U.S. official who said it was\u2063 the\u200b &#8220;closest\u2064 we&#8217;ve\u2063 been&#8221; to a \u200c <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostage<\/span> \u200b deal.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, \u2064as described by the first source, envisages the release of around 50 civilian <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostages<\/span> by Hamas and\u2064 of\u2062 female and minor-aged\u2064 Palestinian detainees from \u2062Israeli \u200dcustody, as well as a multi-day pause in fighting.<\/p>\n<p>A Hamas official \u200btold Al Jazeera TV that negotiations were centered on\u200c how\u2064 long the truce would last, arrangements for\u200c delivery of\u2062 aid into Gaza and details of the exchange\u2063 of captives. Both sides would free women and children, and details would be announced by \u200dQatar, which is mediating in the negotiations, said the official, Issat el Reshiq.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s Channel 12 and Channel 13 TV stations\u200b both quoted unidentified officials as saying terms of a deal could be reached \u2064&#8221;within\u200c hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hamas took about \u200d240 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostages<\/span> during its Oct. 7 rampage into \u2063Israel that killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.<\/p>\n<p>Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the\u200b International Committee\u200b of \u2063the Red Cross \u2063(ICRC), met Haniyeh in Qatar on Monday to &#8220;advance humanitarian issues&#8221;\u2062 related to the conflict, the Geneva-based ICRC said in a statement. She also separately met Qatari authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The ICRC said it was not part of negotiations aimed at releasing \u200dthe\u2062 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostages<\/span>, \u2064but as a neutral intermediary it was ready &#8220;to facilitate any future \u200crelease that the parties agree to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talk of an imminent <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hostage<\/span> \u2063 deal has swirled for days.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael\u2063 Herzog \u200bsaid on ABC&#8217;s <em>This\u200c Week<\/em> \u200c on\u200c Sunday that he\u2062 hoped\u200c for an agreement &#8220;in the coming days,&#8221; while Qatar&#8217;s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman \u2064al-Thani said \u200dthat \u2062the remaining sticking\u200d points were &#8220;very minor.&#8221;\u200c U.S. president Joe Biden \u2062and other U.S. officials\u2062 said\u2063 on \u200cMonday a\u200c deal was near.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b Hamas \u200craid on Oct. 7, the deadliest day\u200d in Israel&#8217;s 75-year-old history, prompted Israel to invade Gaza to annihilate the militant\u2062 group that has ruled there since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Gaza&#8217;s\u2062 Hamas-run\u2063 government says at least 13,300 Palestinians have been confirmed killed,\u200c including at least 5,600 children, by Israeli\u200b bombardment that has turned much of Gaza, \u200despecially\u2064 its\u2064 northern \u200chalf, into wasteland.<\/p>\n<p>Around\u2064 two-thirds of Gaza&#8217;s 2.3 million people have been made homeless, with thousands a \u200bday still trekking south \u200don foot with belongings \u2064and children in their arms. The central\u200d and \u2062southern parts of \u2064the enclave, \u2064where Israel\u200d has \u200dtold\u200b them to go, have also regularly come under attack.<\/p>\n<p>A day and a night of\u200d rain and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-hamas-indicate-hostages-deal-is-close\/\" title=\"Israel and Hamas Indicate Hostages Deal Is Close\">cold winter weather worsened<\/a> the dire conditions in Gaza for the displaced, many\u2064 thousands of whom \u2063are sleeping rough\u2062 or in makeshift tents.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza health\u200c authorities said\u200b on Tuesday \u2062at least\u200c 20\u200d Palestinians were killed in\u2064 Israeli bombing of the\u2063 Nuseirat refugee\u200d camp in central \u200cGaza\u2063 at midnight. There was no immediate comment from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The already crowded Nuseirat \u200ddistrict, which grew \u200cout of a camp for Palestinian refugees from\u200c the 1948 Israeli-Arab \u200cwar, \u2064is just south of the\u200c wetlands that \u200dbisect the strip and has been the arrival\u2064 point for \u200dhuge\u200d numbers escaping the fighting\u200d further north.<\/p>\n<p>Bombing\u200d in southern areas leaves Gazans\u200c fearing they have no place safe to go. Neighboring Egypt has allowed the \u200devacuation of some \u2063wounded\u2063 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photos-israel-shuts-border-to-all-except-worlds-most-beautiful-women\/\" title=\"PHOTOS: Israel Shuts Border to All Except World's Most Beautiful Women\">foreign passport holders<\/a>, but says it\u200d will not accept\u200b a\u2062 mass exodus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Continued bombing targeting displaced people in the South has a clear \u2062objective, and that \u200dis to \u200cforce Gaza&#8217;s residents to leave\u2063 the\u2064 Strip,&#8221; Egypt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-frees-american-detainees-after-us-allows-6-billion-transfer-to-tehran\/\" title=\"US allows B transfer to Tehran, Iran frees American detainees.\">foreign \u2062ministry spokesman<\/a> said on \u200cX.\u2063 &#8220;Egypt has\u200c clearly declared its utter rejection\u2062 of\u200c any enforced displacement attempt\u200d of Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands \u2063of civilians \u2064are believed \u200cto remain \u2062in the north despite an Israeli order to \u2062flee. All \u200bhospitals \u2062there \u200bhave ceased functioning normally, many still housing patients and displaced Gazans. Israel \u200dsays\u2064 Hamas uses hospitals\u2063 as shields for\u200d its fighters, which Hamas and the hospitals deny.<\/p>\n<p>The World \u200dHealth Organization said it was working on plans to evacuate\u2063 three Northern Gaza hospitals: \u2064Al \u200bShifa, Al Ahli and the Indonesian Hospital, lamenting this as a\u2062 last resort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s robbing the\u2062 entire population of the \u2064north\u200d of the means to seek health\u200c [care],&#8221; WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier \u200ctold a Geneva press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Issam Nabhan, head\u2062 of\u2063 the\u2062 nursing department of the Indonesian Hospital, where the WHO and Gaza authorities say 12 people were killed on Monday by Israeli fire,\u2062 told Al-Jazeera on \u200cTuesday there were 60 dead bodies\u200d on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no oxygen to supply the patients. All\u200c those on artificial respiration have\u2063 died. We speak out to the \u200dfree \u200bworld. The Indonesian hospital has\u200b become a cemetery, \u200bnot a hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza,\u200c Emily Rose in \u2062Jerusalem,\u2063 Andrew \u200cMills in Doha, Steve\u200b Holland in Washington\u2062 and Reuters\u200d bureaux; \u200dwriting\u200c by Idrees Ali,\u200b Raju Gopalakrishnan,\u200c Peter \u2062Graff; \u200cediting by Cynthia Osterman, Simon Cameron-Moore, \u200band Alex Richardson)<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How many people have been displaced from the northern \u200dareas due to continuous bombing?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Umbers of \u2063displaced\u2063 people from the northern \u2064areas. \u2064The continuous\u200d bombing has \u200cmade \u2063it nearly impossible for the \u2062residents to escape the \u200dviolence and seek \u200csafety.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, international\u200c efforts\u200d for a ceasefire \u2064and the release \u200bof hostages \u2062have been ongoing. Qatar has been mediating\u200b the negotiations between Israel and Hamas,\u2064 and according to an official from Hamas, details of the agreement will be announced \u200dby the\u200c Qataris. The \u2063deal, as described by sources, includes the release of around 50 civilian hostages \u2062by \u2062Hamas and the release of female and minor Palestinian detainees from\u200c Israeli custody. Additionally, there will be a\u200b multi-day pause in\u2063 fighting \u2064to allow for\u2064 the delivery of aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The international community has been \u2063closely following these developments, with the United \u200dStates expressing optimism about a potential deal. President Joe\u200c Biden and other American officials have\u2062 indicated that an \u200dagreement is near.\u2063 Israeli ambassador to the United \u2064States, Michael Herzog, also shared his hope for an agreement in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>However, the toll of\u200b the conflict \u2063on the people of Gaza cannot be \u200doverlooked. According to Gaza&#8217;s Hamas-run \u2063government, over 13,300 Palestinians, including 5,600 children, have been killed since the conflict escalated. \u2063Israel&#8217;s bombardment has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-drone-firefighters-in-ukraine\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show \u2018Drone Firefighters\u2019 In Ukraine?\">caused widespread destruction<\/a>, turning much of Gaza into a wasteland. The displacement \u2063crisis in \u2064Gaza has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obesity-causes-alzheimers-like-brain-atrophy-you-may-prevent-it\/\" title=\"Obesity Causes Alzheimer\u2019s-Like Brain Atrophy, You May Prevent It\">reached alarming levels<\/a>, with approximately two-thirds of\u2063 the population being\u200c rendered homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bdire conditions have been further exacerbated by \u200bthe\u200b recent rain and cold weather, leaving many displaced individuals without proper \u2063shelter. Thousands of people, including children, are forced to sleep rough or in makeshift tents, enduring \u200bunimaginable hardships.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst\u200c of \u2064this humanitarian crisis, the release\u2064 of \u2062hostages and the establishment of a ceasefire are crucial steps towards alleviating the\u2064 suffering of the people of Gaza.\u2063 The international community must continue\u200d to support and facilitate\u2064 these\u2064 negotiations, ensuring the well-being\u2064 and safety\u200c of all those affected by \u2063the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>While progress has\u2062 been made in the truce agreement \u200bbetween Hamas and Israel, the situation \u2064remains \u200bfragile and volatile.\u2062 Both parties must show genuine commitment to the peace process and prioritize the well-being of the people they represent. It is incumbent upon them to seize\u200b this opportunity for a ceasefire and work towards a lasting resolution that addresses the root causes of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>As the world watches these developments unfold, hope remains that a\u200d truce agreement will be reached soon. The\u2062 release of hostages and the cessation of violence are\u2064 essential to\u200c bring much-needed relief to the people of Gaza and pave the way for a sustainable peace in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Hamas said on Tuesday that a truce agreement with Israel was close, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped for good news soon about\u00a0hostages, the most optimistic signals so far of a deal to pause fighting and free captives. 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