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We haven’t committed to any of the delusional demands of Hamas,
the Israeli prime minister said in February last year I love Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will make sure that he continues to be prime minister,
Itamar Ben Gvir, the national security minister, said in a statement Friday morning We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it is lost,
The government has approved the outline for the return of the abductees,
the government said in a statement to CNN The government will then convene to approve the deal,
The first stage, which lasts 42 days, includes a ceasefire, the withdrawal and redeployment of Israeli forces outside densely populated areas, the release of hostages and exchange of prisoners and detainees, the exchange of the remains of the deceased, the return of internally displaced persons to their places of residence in the Gaza strip, and facilitating the departure of patients and wounded to recieve treatment."
The Qatari ministry wrote The first stage also includes intensifying the safe and effective entry and distribution of humanitarian aid on a large scale throughout the Gaza strip, ... rehabilitating hospitals, health centers, and bakeries, bringing in civil defense supplies and fuel, and bringing in shelter supplies for displaced persons who lost their homes due to the war."
the Qatari Foreign Ministry explained, including Many people don't like it, because it is clear that Israel is losing the ability to destroy Hamas, as we promised,
There is no other way to release the hostages, and from within Israeli society, that was very important,
the retired Major General said We are dealing with this deal [for] more than a year, and both sides tried to achieve the best deal for themselves,
retired Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Major General Yaakov Amidror said in a discussion with reporters Thursday afternoon The best deal is the one which was not achieved,
Hamas is going to be able to claim that it survived,
I hope it will happen so we'll be able to cook in our homes and make whatever food we want, without having to go to soup kitchens and exhaust ourselves for three or four hours trying to get (food) - sometimes not even making it home,
displaced Palestinian Reeham Sheikh al-Eid said No one can promise that Hamas will keep its word and execute the second stage,
Amos Harel, a military affairs columnist for the Israeli paper Haaretz, wrote on Friday It's as clear as can be that the delay is a result of political pressures in Jerusalem and Netanyahu's fear for his coalition,
Shira Efron, senior research director at the Israel Policy Forum and former United Nations consultant in Jerusalem, told Newsweek Once he reached the conclusion that one of the two most extreme members of his government, who only jointly can deprive him of a governing majority, is not about to jump ship, he went for it,
The last-minute hiccup in convening the Israeli cabinet to approve the deal has been a microcosm of the Netanyahu conduct on the issue throughout: the longevity of his governing coalition being the primary consideration,
Nimrod Novik, an Israel Policy Forum fellow who served as senior foreign policy adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, told Newsweek We appreciate how the outgoing and incoming administrations put politics aside at this transitional juncture to help advance a hostage agreement,
Happy with his powerful position and alarmed by consistent polls indicating that he is not making the electoral threshold, thus not returning should elections are called, all Bibi [Netanyahu] had to do is offer him some face-saving formula,
Where we could be facing a more serious crisis is in the negotiations and transition into stage 2, and if there is stage 3, of the agreement,
