The delay in the government approval of the hostage deal to after Shabbat is not due to a desire to avoid desecrating it, as ultra-Orthodox party leader Arye Deri believes this to be a matter of saving lives, which overrides Shabbat restrictions, according to Kann News.
With the hostage deal signed by representatives of both Israel and Hamas in Doha, the Israeli government needs to convene and vote to approve it before it can go ahead and the hostages begin to be released.
However, due to a number of last-minute demands and obstacles, the deal was not signed until early this morning, even though the deal is supposed to begin to be implemented already by Sunday.
Some believe that the cabinet, which cannot be convened on Friday, is not being convened before after Shabbat to avoid violating it in multiple ways.
However, ultra-Orthodox party leader Arye Deri has in fact insisted on convening the decisive government meeting even on Shabbat in order to save the lives of the hostages.
According to the Kann report, the delay in convening the cabinet has to do with the work schedule of the Supreme Court, as those who wish to appeal the decision cannot do so on Shabbat due to the definitions of legal time, which may create legal hurdles down the road for the deal.
The Attorney General has reportedly found a solution which might make it possible to sidestep this issue, though the report did not provide further details.
Once the deal is approved, 33 hostages, alive and dead, will be released in small numbers throughout the 42-day period allotted to the first phase of the hostage deal.
In exchange, Israel will release hundreds of terrorists, allow 600 trucks of humanitarian aid in per day, and observe a month and a half ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, including the redeployment of the IDF within the Strip.
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