Key Points Of The Truce

Israel and Hamas have agreed on a 4 day truce after a 45 day war, that began on October 7.
The Qatari administration has announced that Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a humanitarian halt in Gaza that would begin within the next 24 hours and continue for a minimum of four days.
50 civilian women and children who are being kept captive in the Palestinian enclave will be freed as part of the arrangement.

150 Palestinian women and children would be released from Israeli prisons, according to Hamas, which also acknowledged that a deal had been reached.
Israel PM Netanyahu has vowed that the agreement would not bring the conflict to an end.
Izzat al Rishq, another Hamas official, stated that the talks were centered on a swap of women and children between Israel and the Palestinian militant organization.
According to Hamas, over the four days, all air travel in southern Gaza will cease, and there will be daily six-hour flights in the north.
All of Gaza would be able to receive humanitarian aid through hundreds of aid trucks.
According to Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus, the IDF will “use the time to prepare for future operations” in addition to remaining “vigilant” throughout the truce.
As per a senior US official quoted by Reuters, the Islamist Palestinian group, Hamas, is scheduled to release at least fifty hostages, including three Americans who were detained by them in Gaza, as part of an agreement with the US, Israel, and Qatar.
The New York Times also writes, citing Israeli sources, that the agreement cannot be implemented until Thursday in order to give Israeli justices time to consider any potential legal challenges to the release of inmates.

Israel will allow 300 aid trucks inside Gaza

As reported by Axios, additional gasoline and Israel’s promise to permit “about 300 aid trucks per day to enter Gaza from Egypt” are also included in the accord.
The truce to free the hostages was praised by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as “significant progress.”
Israel’s six hospitals are getting ready to take in hostages as per the truce, according to Haaretz. “They have set aside specific compounds to house them, away from other patients and the press.”
“All the branches of the Israeli security services – the IDF, the Shin Bet, and the Mossad – support the planned deal,” according to the official citation from Haaretz. The official clarified that the arrangement only applies to Israelis who are still alive and that Hamas may simultaneously free international nationals in line with agreements made with other nations.
A “short-term, long-term, and sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza has been demanded by the leaders of the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Following missiles fired by a group allied with Iran toward an Iraqi base holding US forces, the US has declared it has responded. The Pentagon reported that multiple fighters were killed in the US strike.
Jordan has increased its military presence near Israel’s border due to worries about Palestinians being forcibly removed from the occupied West Bank.
Due to “extremely overcrowded conditions” at UNRWA shelters, there has been a 40% increase in diarrhea and a 35% increase in skin disorders over the past two weeks, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ daily update from Gaza.

According to state-run Xinhua news agency on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a “international peace conference” to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The official support for calls for an end to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has come from the Scottish Labour Party.
Following reports that three doctors and “a patient companion” were slain in an attack on the al-Awda hospital in north Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed its support for the medical staff there.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, expressed earlier on Tuesday his expectation for “good news soon” about the release of some of the almost 240 individuals detained during Hamas’ strikes on October 7.

Since the start of the conflict, Israeli strikes in Gaza have claimed the lives of at least 14,128 Palestinians, the authorities in the territories announced on Tuesday. According to the most recent information, at least 5,600 children and 3,550 mothers have died.