The office of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that an agreement has been reached on hostage release and a ceasefire in the ongoing war in Gaza, with the security cabinet to meet today.
A cabinet meeting to vote on the truce had been delayed but approval now appears imminent.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was informed by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a deal to release the hostages,” his office said in a statement.
The ceasefire is expected to begin Sunday, with 33 hostages taken by Hamas set to be released over the next six weeks, while Israel has agreed that hundreds of Palestinians who have been imprisoned will be exchanged.
The remainder of the hostages will only be released after a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal, Hamas said.
More than 46,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas health ministry , who say the majority of those killed have been women and children.
Israel claims that it has killed over 17,000 Hamas militants.
The US president-elect Donald Trump said this week that the Gaza ceasefire agreement had “better be done before I take the oath of office”.
“We changed the course of it, and we changed it fast, and frankly, it better be done before I take the oath of office,” he added.