A long-awaited hostage and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas won’t take effect before Friday, US and Israeli officials have said, dashing the hopes of families who thought captives may be freed earlier and prolonging the suffering of Palestinians under bombardment in Gaza.
“The contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly,” Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said in a statement. “The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday.”
Multiple news outlets later cited anonymous Israeli officials as saying that the halt in fighting would not begin on Thursday either, as had been widely expected.
White House spokesperson Adrienne Watson later said final logistical details for the release were being worked out. “That is on track and we are hopeful that implementation will begin on Friday morning,” Watson said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the delay. The deal had been expected to come into force from Thursday. An Egyptian security source told Reuters that mediators had sought a start time of 10am.
Here’s our full report on the deal:
British foreign secretary David Cameron has made some comments to the media while visiting kibbutz Be’eri, which was the scene of some of the worst violence during the Hamas assault inside Israel on 7 October.
The former prime minister said:
I wanted to come here to see it for myself; I have heard and seen things I will never forget.
Today is also a day where we hope to see progress on the humanitarian pause. This is a crucial opportunity to get hostages out and aid in to Gaza, to help Palestinian civilians who are facing a growing humanitarian crisis.
Cameron was accompanied by Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen, who said “World leaders need to see the horrors of Hamas with their own eyes.”
Earlier the IDF posted to its Telegram channel that “a number of launches were detected from Lebanese territory towards Israeli territory.”
Haaretz is now reporting that Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for firing 48 rockets towards the Upper Galilee region in Israel’s north.
There are, to date, no reports of any casualties.
A Palestinian official told AFP on Thursday a delay in implementation of a truce in the Gaza Strip between Israeli forces and Hamas was due to “last minute” details over which hostages would be released and how.
The truce, widely expected to go into force on Thursday but delayed during the night, had been put back over “the names of the Israeli hostages and the modalities of their release”, said the official, who has knowledge of the negotiation process but asked to remain anonymous.
Lists of those to be freed had been exchanged by both sides, he added. Questions were also being raised over Red Cross access to the hostages before they would be released into Egypt, he said, and whether the Red Cross would have access to those who remained.
A senior Hamas official reached by phone told AFP there were “obstacles linked to the situation on the ground”, hoping that there would not be “a mistake that has a negative impact on the truce or prevent it happening”.
But “mediators are shuttling between the two sides and the atmosphere is still constructive”, he added.
Gaza’s health ministry, which is run by the Hamas-led government, has told Associated Press it has resumed its detailed count of casualties from the Israel-Hamas war in the territory.
The director of the health ministry, Medhat Abbas, confirmed the resumption, saying it has documented more than 13,000 deaths.
The latest count is based on updated figures from hospitals in the south and 11 November figures from the northern hospitals. The real toll, it said, is likely higher.
The health ministry says another 6,000 people have been reported missing, and are feared buried under the rubble.
The health ministry had stopped updating its figures on 11 November after the breakdown of access and communication in northern Gaza.
It is 11am in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are the latest headlines …
A long-awaited hostage and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas won’t take effect before Friday, US and Israeli officials have said, dashing the hopes of families who thought captives may be freed earlier and prolonging the suffering of Palestinians under bombardment in Gaza. It was not immediately clear what caused the delay. The deal had been expected to come into force from Thursday.
Under the agreement, Hamas will free at least 50 of the more than 240 mostly Israeli hostages they took on 7 October. In turn, Israel will release at least 150 Palestinian prisoners and allow up to 300 trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza after more than six weeks of bombardment, heavy fighting and a crippling blockade of fuel, food, medicine and other essentials.
The Israeli military (IDF) says it struck more than 300 “Hamas terror targets” in total over the past day. In a Telegram post the IDF said it had struck “military command centres, underground terror tunnels, weapon storage facilities, weapon manufacturing sites and anti-tank missile posts”.
The chief of the general staff of Israel’s armed forces has told soldiers “we are not ending the war”. In comments to brigade commanders inside Gaza released to the media, Herzi Halevi said: “We are not ending the war. We will continue until we are victorious, going forward and continuing in other Hamas areas. I’m very proud of you, you are doing an outstanding job.”
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has so far killed between 13,000 and 14,000 people, thousands of them children, according to Palestinian officials. More are thought to be under rubble. Israel launched the assault after the Hamas attacks on 7 October inside Israel, which killed at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and during which an estimated 240 people were taken hostage. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
Sarbini Abdul Murad, the head of the Indonesian charity Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, has said: “The Indonesia hospital in Gaza is now empty. The doctors and the wounded were moved to the European hospital. Our volunteers are sheltering at a school with thousands of others.”
In another development, unconfirmed reports say the director of the al-Shifa hospital has been detained by Israeli forces.
The US says it has downed drones in the Red Sea that had been launched from Yemen.
Israel’s military spokesperson, Danial Hagari, has said the IDF has again attacked targets inside Lebanon. There had been indications yesterday that while it was not a direct part of the Israel-Hamas deal, Hezbollah would respect a truce period on the northern boundary between Israel and Lebanon. The IDF reported “a number of launches” from Lebanon into Israel.
The British foreign secretary, David Cameron, is in Israel, where he has visited kibbutz Be’eri, one of the sites attacked by Hamas on 7 October in an assault that one of the survivors described as a “pogrom”.
Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, on Thursday said his country is in favour of the recognition of a viable Palestinian state “in the very short term”.
Germany’s interior ministry said 15 properties of members and supporters of Hamas and another Palestinian organisation – Samidoun had been raided in four regions. The groups are banned in the country. There are an estimated 450 Hamas members in Germany, according to official figures.
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy has been appearing on television in the UK, where he told viewers that Hamas could choose to release any of the hostages it holds at any time, and that it did not have to be contingent on a deal.
He said on Sky News that the delay in releasing hostages was “heartbreaking”, saying:
You know, Hamas could release the hostages now. It could have released them yesterday. It could have released them on 7 October. And every moment that it chooses not to release those vulnerable little children is a moment that it continues to psychologically terrorise these children’s families.
They’ve been holding them in the dark and they’ve been keeping their families in the dark. Their families know nothing about their condition. Physically, mentally, emotionally. You know, maybe even worse, these children don’t know what has happened to their families.
This hostage crisis is intensely personal for everyone in Israel. We’re a small country. Everyone knows someone who has had someone stolen from them. And we’re hoping to begin bringing back our stolen children, bring back those hostages, and we’re committed to the pledge that we will bring all of them back, and there will be no one left behind.
Here are some of the latest images sent to us over the news wires from Gaza and Israel.
The UK’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said she urges Hamas to “finally do the right thing” and release the hostages it is holding.
Speaking on Sky News, she said:
[For] all hostages and their families [it] is just so awful. It’s 7 October. It’s weeks now. Not knowing. Not hearing the conditions of the person you love the most and particularly the children, but also for elderly people who need access to medicine. And they’ve been locked in tunnels in who knows what conditions.
So much hope yesterday that prisoners were going to be released today. Let’s hope it’s tomorrow. Let’s hope that deal can be got across the line.
It is so important that the hostages are released, but also that support is getting into Gaza, but that won’t happen until the hostages are released.
So I urge Hamas, a terrorist organisation, to finally do the right thing and release those hostages.
Al Jazeera is reporting that the Indonesia hospital in Gaza has been evacuated.
It quotes Sarbini Abdul Murad, head of the Indonesian charity Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), saying:
The Indonesia hospital is now empty, and our volunteers have been moved to a school near the European hospital in Rafah. The doctors and the wounded were moved to the European hospital. Our volunteers are sheltering at a school with thousands of others.
More details soon …
The chief of the general staff of Israel’s armed forces has told soldiers “we are not ending the war”.
In comments released by Israel’s military, Herzi Halevi, speaking to brigade commanders inside Gaza, said:
We are trying to connect the goals of the war, so that the pressure from the ground operation brings about the ability to also achieve the goal of this war, to create the conditions for the release of the abducted hostages. We are not ending the war. We will continue until we are victorious, going forward and continuing in other Hamas areas. I’m very proud of you, you are doing an outstanding job.
The Israeli offensive has killed between 13,000 and 14,000 people, thousands of them children, according to Palestinian officials. More are thought to be under rubble.
Israel launched the assault after the Hamas attacks on 7 October inside Israel, which killed at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and during which an estimated 240 people were taken hostage.
It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
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