An official statement from the Foreign Ministry said that the joint mediation carried out by the State of Qatar and the Arab Republic of Egypt to achieve this agreement.
The American President Joe Biden welcomed the humanitarian truce that was reached between Israeli occupation and the resistance movement Hamas, with Qatari-Egyptian mediation, for a period of 4 days, subject to extension, during which the prisoners between the two sides will be released.
Israel and Hamas announced a deal on Wednesday allowing at least 50 hostages and scores of Palestinian prisoners to be freed, while offering Gaza residents a four-day truce .
In the first major diplomatic breakthrough in the war, Hamas will release during a four-day truce 50 women and children.
After weeks of Qatar-brokered negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved the truce accord Wednesday after a near-all-night meeting.
The cabinet's sign-off was one of the last stumbling blocks after what one US official described as five "extremely excruciating" weeks of talks. Hamas released a statement welcoming the "humanitarian truce" and said it would also see 150 Palestinians released from Israeli jails.
Israel said that to facilitate the hostage release it would initiate a four-day "pause" in its six-week-old air, land and sea assault of Gaza, while it stressed that the agreement did not spell the end of the war.
The negotiations have involved the US Central Intelligence Agency, Israel's overseas spy agency Mossad, Egyptian intelligence, and leaders in Doha, Cairo, Washington, Gaza and Israel.
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