Daily Briefing Jan. 18: Day 470 – 3 hostages set to come home Sunday under truce with Hamas
Editor David Horovitz on government ratification of hostage release-ceasefire deal, which is slated to see exchange of 1,904 Palestinian prisoners for 33 hostages in 42 days
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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
The Prime Minister’s Office issued a brief statement after 1 a.m. Saturday morning confirming that the government approved the hostage release-ceasefire deal with Hamas after meeting for more than seven hours. Twenty-four ministers voted in favor of the deal and eight opposed. The deal should enter into force on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. and the first three Israeli hostages are to be freed at 4 p.m. In sum, 33 hostages are to be freed in the first, 42-day phase of the deal.
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Horovitz speaks about the political dramas, what we know about the implementation of the deal and who is on the first-phase list.
Israel is set to release up to 1,904 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including several serving multiple life sentences for deadly terror attacks and murder. The Justice Ministry has, as of Saturday, published the names of 735 Palestinian prisoners to allow petitions against their release to be submitted to the High Court. We hear some of the complexities around the prisoner-release portion of the deal and who is not currently going to be freed.
We speak about the mood of the country after the deal was finally ratified. How are families whose loved ones were killed in battle in Gaza feeling as Hamas and Hezbollah cry victory and vow to ramp up their “resistance” to Israel in the near future.
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Discussed articles include:
Israeli government approves hostage-ceasefire agreement with Hamas
Israel to free up to 1,904 Palestinians in 1st stage of hostage deal, including killers
These are the 33 hostages set to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire
Guidelines for hospitals set to receive hostages include STD checks, pregnancy tests
IDF intercepts missile from Yemen in 4th Houthi attack this week, no injuries
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