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War cabinet set to vote by telephone tonight on Paris hostage-for-truce deal outline — TV report
People walk by photographs of civilians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Channel 12 reports that war cabinet ministers are to vote by telephone tonight on whether to endorse the Paris hostages-for-truce outline.
It says the deal apparently provides, in a first phase, for the release of some 40 hostages in return for the release of Palestinian security prisoners and a truce in the fighting of some 6 weeks. These would be female, elderly and ill hostages. The number of Palestinian prisoners has not been finalized, it says, but is likely to be in the hundreds.
These details largely match earlier reports from other sources.
The TV report says there would be provision for further talks on the release of additional hostages.
It says the goal is for the deal to be finalized by the start of Ramadan.
