The Israeli government has approved the plan for the release of all hostages, dead and alive. This is the first concrete step forward in Trump's peace plan for Gaza. With the Israeli government's ratification of the agreement overnight (by a majority, with five ministers from the right-wing parties of Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich opposing it), the ceasefire in the Strip immediately went into effect , as stipulated in the document signed in Egypt on Thursday morning. The truce will be monitored by a joint task force of 200 U.S. troops and military personnel from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and possibly the Emirates. Furthermore, the U.S. Central Command will establish a "civil-military coordination center" in Israel that will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid, as well as logistical and security assistance to Gaza.

The IDF will withdraw to the Yellow Line indicated on the agreement's maps within the next 24 hours, after which Hamas must release all hostages alive within 72 hours. So, "Monday or Tuesday," as a beaming Donald Trump announced at the opening of the White House cabinet meeting, after sealing the agreement between Israel and Hamas on the first phase of the Gaza peace plan Wednesday night. "The hostages should be released Monday or Tuesday," he told his followers on the day of the historic signing, as he packed his bags to fly to the Middle East. Israel and Egypt, he is likely to be the first to announce his achievement at the official agreement ceremony. It was Trump himself who announced the achievement to the world in a post on Truth, prepared in advance to be the first to publicize it.

With the complicity of his Foreign Minister, Marco Rubio, who shortly before had passed him a "note" announcing that the agreement was now "very close." The agreement, signed Friday in Sharm el-Sheikh after several days of indirect negotiations, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey with US supervision, is The Donald's most significant diplomatic coup, perhaps more so than the Abraham Accords of his first term, which he now hopes to expand, presenting himself to the world as a peacemaker with dreams of winning the Nobel Prize and making history. to his ministers, adding that he will attempt to travel to Egypt for the official signing ceremony. The trip, expected for Sunday, is expected to include Israel, where The invitation came from Benjamin Netanyahu in their phone call after the diplomatic breakthrough. It was a "very emotional and warm" conversation, the prime minister described, later joining the growing chorus of voices (including the NYT) calling for Trump to be awarded the coveted Nobel Peace Prize.