The Qatari Foreign Ministry announced that the temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will come into effect on November 24.

A temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will take effect from 7 a.m. on November 24. This was reported by the Qatari Foreign Ministry, whose representatives act as mediators in negotiations between Israel and the Hamas group.

In addition, as said the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the emirate, Majit al-Ansari, , the militants will release the first group of hostages tomorrow, November 24, at about 16:00. He clarified that Hamas will release 13 women and children.

A preliminary agreement on a four-day humanitarian pause, during which some Hamas hostages will be released, was reached on the morning of November 22. On the same day, the Israeli Ministry of Justice published the names of 300 Palestinian prisoners whom the country may release in response.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ground operation in the Gaza Strip began on October 27. It was a response to a Hamas attack on southern Israel three weeks earlier that killed 1,200 people and took more than 200 hostage. In a month and a half, the militants “for humanitarian reasons” released only four hostages - two elderly Israeli women and two American women .