Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel starts on Friday at 7:00 a.m.

CAIRO – 23 November 2023: The Egyptian/Qatari-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel will come into effect on Friday at 7:00 a.m., announced Egyptian senior officials, Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman in a press conference and Hamas in a statement on Thursday.

Thirteen Palestinian prisoners (women and minors under the age of 19) will be released on the first day of the 4-day truce at 4:00 p.m., while Hamas will release 13 Israeli female and minor captives.

Three Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, will be released for every one Israeli captive. Also, within the four-day truce, 50 Israeli captives (women and children under the age of 19) will be released.

The truce will last for 4 days, starting on Friday morning, accompanied by a cessation of all military actions by the Qassam Brigades, Other Palestinian fighters, and the Zionist enemy over the period of the truce. Israeli aircraft will stop flying completely over the southern Gaza Strip during the truce.

Israeli aircraft will stop flying for 6 hours a day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Gaza City and the north of the strip during the period of the truce.

As for the humanitarian aid, a total of 200 trucks of relief and medical supplies will enter daily to all areas of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, 4 trucks of fuel and cooking gas will enter daily to all areas of the Gaza Strip.

During the truce, the locations of more Israeli captives held by different Palestinian factions other than Hamas will be determined to extend the truce, said the Qatari Foreign Ministry.

“We look very positively at the commitment of both parties to the terms of the truce and prison swap agreement,” said Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari in the press conference.

“Our primary goal is the security and safety of the captives, and the way of their release cannot be revealed […] We hope that this humanitarian truce will lead to achieving a permanent truce and lasting peace,” he added.

Ansari said that relaunching hostile acts in Gaza would be considered a violation of the truce, continuing “We will maintain communication with all parties to ensure that an appropriate and safe environment is created for the release of the captives.”