Hamas senior leader Zaher Jabarin told the Qatari media outlet al-Arabi today (Thursday) that the terrorist group would be providing a list of the four hostages to be released this weekend tomorrow.
Jabarin further said that come Saturday, Gazans will be allowed to move back from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north, and that inspection of vehicles moving in that direction will be done under Egyptian and Qatari supervision. According to other media sources, it will be carried out by an American company.
Jabarin said further that Israel and Hamas agreed in negotiations that the management of the Rafah crossing is a "Palestinian-Egyptian matter," and that negotiations over the second phase of the ceasefire agreement will begin in two weeks.
According to the agreement, Hamas is also supposed to provide Israel with a full list of the hostages to be released in the first phase of the deal, including their condition and whether they are alive or dead, by this weekend.
A recent poll by the INSS shows that about 49% of Israelis want a complete end to the war and 67% support the hostage deal in its current form. Moreover, 74% of Jewish Israelis do not believe that Israel has achieved its war aims, which included the release of the hostages and the "collapse" of Hamas' governing and military capabilities.
Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that he stayed in the government rather than resign and dismantle Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's narrow majority in the Knesset so that the government does return to war against Hamas once the first phase of the deal, a condition he has tried to get in writing from Netanyahu.
Qatari mediators, meanwhile, said that they are working hard to ensure that every phase of the hostage deal, including a permanent end to the war, are carried out.
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