Qatar: Ceasefire to kick off tomorrow at 7 a.m., 13 hostages will be freed at 4 p.m.

23 November 2023, 4:16 pm

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File - Qatari Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari gives details of a planned hostage release, at a press conference in Doha, November 23, 2023. (CNN screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry says the Israel-Hamas ceasefire will go into effect tomorrow at 7 a.m.

Majed Al-Ansari says the first group of 13 Israeli hostages will be freed tomorrow at 4 p.m.

He says Doha has received the list of names of the civilians the Hamas terror group will free on the first day of the deal, out of at least four groups.

Asked about other countries’ hostages, he says the initial focus “was on getting the women and children out of harm’s way” as a priority, and speaks of “expanding the pause through the formula of getting more hostages out.”

He says the aim is for the pause in fighting to end “with a lasting truce.”