All Hostages Will Be Freed From Gaza Within 72 Hours After Withdrawal By Israel: Agreement

All Israeli hostages, living and deceased, held in Gaza will be released within 72 hours of the withdrawal of Israeli forces, according to the agreement signed between Israel, Hamas and mediators in Egypt.

The document titled “Implementation Steps for President’s Trump for a ‘Comprehensive End of Gaza War,’” published by the Kan public broadcaster, has detailed the stages of the deal, beginning with the American leader’s announcement of “the end to the war in the Gaza Strip, and that the parties have agreed to implement the necessary steps to that end”.

As part of the agreement, the second step states that “the war will immediately end upon the approval of the Israeli government”.

The third step would be “immediate commencement of full entry of humanitarian

aid and relief” into the Gaza Strip. The fourth step as per the agreement would be “IDF will withdraw to lines agreed upon as per map X attached herewith, and this will be completed after President Trump’s announcement and within 24 hours of Israeli government approval”.

“The IDF will not return to areas that have been withdrawn from, as long as Hamas fully implements the agreement,” the agreement says.

In the fifth step, “within 72 hours of the withdrawal of Israeli forces, all Israeli hostages, living and deceased, held in Gaza will be released”.

The Times of Israel reported that while declaring all living and dead captives will be released during this 72-hour span, one of the fifth step’s subclauses calls for “the establishment of an information-sharing mechanism… on any deceased hostages that were not retrieved within the 72 hours or remains of Gazans held by Israel.”

“The mechanism shall ensure that the remains of all the hostages fully and safely exhumed and released. Hamas shall exert maximum effort to ensure the fulfillment of these commitments as soon as possible,” it added.

The next subclause in the document is that “as Hamas releases all the hostages, Israel will release in parallel the corresponding number of Palestinian prisoners as per the attaches lists,” followed by another subclause declaring “the exchange of hostages and prisoners will be done according to the mechanism agreed upon through the mediators and through the ICRC without any public ceremonies or media coverage”.

As per the agreement’s final step, “a task force will be formed of representatives from the United States, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and other countries to be agreed upon by the parties, to follow up on the implementation with the two sides and coordinate with them”.