Doha (TDI): Hamas and Israel have agreed to a truce deal to end the 15-month-long Gaza War, Al-Jazeera reported quoting Palestinian sources on Wednesday.
The development means the deadliest Middle East war that has claimed the lives of nearly 47,000 Palestinians will finally come to an end, thanks to direct mediation from Qatar.
On the other hand, a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said several items in the draft agreement remained unresolved.
“Due to the strong insistence of PM Netanyahu, Hamas retracted its last-minute demand to change the deployment of IDF forces in the Philadelphi Corridor,” the statement read.
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It noted that several items in the draft agreement were yet to be finalized.
“We hope that the details will be finalised tonight,” it added.
Earlier, AFP had reported that Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad had approved the terms of the ceasefire deal.
“The resistance factions have reached a consensus and informed the mediators of the development,” it said.
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said on Tuesday that the negotiations had entered the final round, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling a meeting of his top security officials late that night to discuss the truce deal.
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For over 14 months, the Palestinian people have endured a relentless assault on their lives, rights, and dignity that resulted in the killing of more than 46,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children as well as the uprooting of over 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.1 million population.
Nearly 160,000 housing units have been destroyed, leaving almost the whole population homeless.
