The Egyptian hostage deal proposal: The good, the bad, and the unknown

More details have come out regarding an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a hostage deal tonight (Thursday) on Channel 12, with the main points being a possible partial hostage exchange for anyone who is not a uniformed soldier and Israel not having to preemptively announce the end of the war.

The number of Israeli hostages expected to be released in such a humanitarian, partial deal is expected to be less than 33, quite possibly since many of them died in various circumstances since negotiations were ended.

In exchange, Israel would agree to release hundreds of terrorists, including murderers who are serving long sentences in Israeli prisons, though the exact number and complement of prisoners has not yet been established.

However, these are the details proposed by the mediators, Egypt and Qatar, and Hamas itself has not responded to the proposal, yet. In past negotiations since the first partial deal, Hamas held fast to a very hard line insisting that any deal must include an end to the war, a full IDF withdrawal, and foreign rebuilding of the Strip. It remains unclear if they will settle for anything less, even now.