00:00 Israel and Hamas have agreed on a four-day truce, according to both sides, the first
00:06 in the war.
00:07 The Israeli government voted in the early hours of Wednesday to back the deal, which
00:11 would allow the release of 50 women and children hostages held in Gaza.
00:16 It also mentioned that for every 10 extra captives released, they would extend the pause
00:21 in fighting by another day.
00:23 In exchange, Hamas said, Israel would also free 150 Palestinian women and children imprisoned
00:30 there and allow hundreds of aid trucks to enter Gaza.
00:36 According to Israeli tallies, Hamas took about 240 hostages when its fighters surged into
00:41 southern Israel on October 7 and killed 1,200 people.
00:46 To date, Hamas has released four captives.
00:49 Late on Tuesday, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, which also took part
00:54 in the Hamas raid, said one of its Israeli hostages had died.
00:59 Since the October attack, Gazan authorities say Israeli bombardments have flattened large
01:04 parts of the Hamas-ruled enclave, killed more than 13,000 people and displaced about 2.3
01:11 million others.
01:13 Before the deal was announced, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said US President
01:18 Joe Biden's intervention had helped to improve the tentative agreement so that it included
01:23 more hostages and fewer concessions.
01:26 But Netanyahu said Israel's broader mission had not changed.
01:30 In a message at the start of the Cabinet meeting on the deal, he said, "We are at war and we
01:37 will continue the war until we achieve all our goals to destroy Hamas, return all our
01:43 hostages and ensure that no entity in Gaza can threaten Israel."
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