Ali Al-Ansari, media attache to the Qatari Embassy to the United States, told Newsweek his nation "appreciates the important role and positive impact of President Trump and his administration, particularly the efforts of his special envoy Steve Witkoff, in finalizing the agreement."

“It needs to be addressed as a whole. The whole issue is to find a sustainable path toward peace and where we can see Israel and Palestinians living side by side peacefully together and giving every assurance that both people will be secure,” he tells Channel 12’s Arad Nir in Paris.

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Jerusalem has ordered their release held up "until the safe exit of our hostages during the next waves is guaranteed," according to the Prime Minister's Office.

Israel's government approved a ceasefire deal with Hamas early Saturday morning.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office confirmed that a deal has been agreed upon with Hamas to release the hostages held in Gaza. Follow for live news updates.

DOHA — Israel’s security cabinet is approving a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas. Now, the full 33-member cabinet will vote to approve the deal sometime this morning. It comes after negotiators for Israel and Hamas reportedly signed off on the deal.

Already, the fragile deal has come under considerable stress, and it could collapse in the weeks to come. Yet for the time being, the fighting has stopped in both Gaza and Lebanon, and hostages have begun to come home.

It is important to recognize that Palestinians in Gaza stood their ground, despite immense losses, and prevailed.

I would tell my husband I felt like it was a palace,” Shaima Abu Jazar told me, describing the family’s three-story home in Rafah in southern Gaza. They had lived in it for just six months before it was leveled to the ground in an Israeli airstrike in February 2024.

He pointed out that the second task is to prevent Israel from shedding the stigma of genocide, saying: “We hope that neither Arabs nor Palestinians assist Israel in escaping its predicament without achieving a just resolution to the Palestinian issue.”

On Saturday, 25 January 2025, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Institute for Palestine Studies launched the Third Annual Palestine Forum in Doha