Agreement sets a path to ending 15 months of Israel's war on Gaza that will see Palestinian and Israeli captives exchanged

Israel and Palestinian movement Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, potentially bringing an end to Israel’s devastating war in the enclave.

The ceasefire will go into effect on Sunday.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani announced the deal on Wednesday during a press conference in Doha.

The Qataris, alongside the Egyptians, helped negotiate the agreement with Israel, while the incoming US administration of President-elect Donald Trump applied pressure on the Israelis, Haaretz reported.

  • @[email protected]
    15•12 hours ago

    The timing seems very convenient, no? Especially since this was the Achilles heel of the dems.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•4 minutes ago

      Very convenient that Donald Trump did the thing Joe Biden could have done for 15 months. Ending the genocide with a single phone call.

      Democrats have been gaslit into infinity. They now actually believe that the president of the USA does not have the power to stop Israel because Biden chose not to do so.

    • @[email protected]English
      16•11 hours ago

      Netanyahu knows Trump is going to be better for HIS Israeli right wing party. The cease-fire was going to happen either way, because his Israeli party is paying too much of an international and domestic cost at this point. Netanyahu waited to be sure to give Trump the win if possible because he knows Trump will capitulate to his party. It was going to go this way after the election either way. It was self-serving. Wait and see what happens after the “cease fire.” This was politics between like minded parties, not compassion for the people of Gaza.

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-likely-prefers-trump-in-historically-close-race-but-hes-hedging-his-bets/

      • z3rOR0ne
        6•10 hours ago

        Makes sense. I just wish it wasn’t so obvious how corrupt all this is.

        • TheLowestStone
          3•8 hours ago

          It’s sad that we long for the good old days of people having the decency to make an effort to hide their corruption.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•11 hours ago

      The faction that was blocking the bill has the green light to get stuck into the West Bank now trumps in and Gaza is quickly becoming an ever smaller death camp which is bad optics with little upside.