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Qatar assures that the temporary truce in the Gaza Strip will begin on Friday morning

The Qatari Foreign Ministry has announced that the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas will begin on Friday at 7:00 a.m. local time (05:00 GMT), while 13 women and children held hostage by the Islamist group will be released starting at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. GMT).

Qatar, one of the mediators of the truce, assured this Thursday that the temporary truce in the Gaza Strip will come into effect this Friday morning, although it was scheduled to begin this Thursday.

The Qatari Foreign Ministry has stated that the truce will begin tomorrow at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT), while 13 women and children held hostage by the Islamist group will be released from 16:00 (14:00 GMT). 00 GMT).

For their part, Egyptian sources assure that communications and consultations continue with “all parties in relation to the truce agreed in the Gaza Strip” and have explained that what is currently being consulted are the “detailed executive procedures that must be applied and fulfill both parts of the armistice agreement”, without giving further details.

Qatar, Egypt and the United States have mediated to achieve the agreement between Hamas and Israel, which would lead to a humanitarian pause in the enclave besieged and punished since the Islamist group attacked Israeli territory on October 7.

Indiscriminate Israeli bombings have caused more than 14,000 deaths in the Palestinian enclave, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Source: Eitb

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