Israel Publishes Full Text Of Hamas Agreement
- 16.01.2025, 19:21
The document consists of eight chapters and 20 paragraphs.
The Times of Israel has published the full text of the agreement between Israel and Hamas, agreed upon on January 15 with the mediation of Egypt, Qatar and the United States. The document consists of eight chapters and 20 paragraphs.
The first phase of the ceasefire, as has already been stated, will last 42 days, during which time 33 hostages will be gradually released. Nine of them are sick and wounded, they will be exchanged for 110 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Israel also agreed to release 1,000 Gaza residents taken into custody since the beginning of the hostilities, but not involved in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Elderly hostages (over 50) will be exchanged at a ratio of one to three Palestinians serving life sentences in Israeli prisons, or one to 27 prisoners serving other types of sentences.
All Palestinians released under the deal will be sent to the Gaza Strip or third countries.
According to the text of the agreement:
Withdrawal of Israeli forces eastwards from densely populated areas will happen since the truce comes into force. The Israeli forces will be deployed in a perimeter (700) meters with an exception at 5 localized points to be increased no more than (400) additional meters that the Israeli side will determine.
the internally displaced pedestrians will be allowed to return north, without carrying arms. Their vehicles and any non-pedestrian traffic will be allowed to return after vehicle inspection which will be performed by a private company which will be determined by the mediators;
The Israeli side will gradually reduce the forces in the Philadelphi corridor area on the border between Gaza and Egypt. After the last hostage release of stage one, on day 42, the Israeli forces will begin their withdrawal and complete it no later than day 50;
The Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt will be ready for the transfer of civilians and for the wounded after the release of all women (civilian and soldiers). Israeli forces will redeploy around the Rafah Crossing according to the attached maps.
50 wounded military individuals will be allowed to cross daily accompanied by (3) individuals.
The parties and the mediators’ objective is to achieve a final consensus and return to a sustainable calm which would achieve a permanent ceasefire between the parties. All procedures in the first stage will continue in stage 2 to ensure that negotiations continue until an agreement is reached.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said that Hamas had backed out of some of the Israel deal's terms at the last minute, preventing the agreement from being reached. The Israeli cabinet was scheduled to vote on the deal on January 16, and it was set to go into effect on January 19.