Israel and Hamas agreed on a humanitarian truce for five days
After several days of the constant Israeli siege in the Gaza Strip, there seems to be a small relief for the people of Gaza. Our correspondent Noor Harazeen has more information. teleSUR
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00:00 After several days of the constant Israeli siege in the Gaza Strip, there seems to be
00:04 a small relief for the people of Gaza.
00:06 With more information, our correspondent Noor Harbazin.
00:11 "Humanitarian truce.
00:14 This is what the people here in Gaza on the ground are all the time talking about, especially
00:20 after Ismail Haniyeh, who was Hamas' chief, said this morning that there could be a truce
00:28 agreement.
00:29 But since then and until now, nothing was confirmed yet.
00:32 However, there is some news that both Israel and Hamas agreed on a humanitarian truce for
00:39 five days, starting from either Thursday or maybe Friday.
00:44 We're still waiting the confirmation.
00:46 In details of this humanitarian truce, unfortunately, we don't have much information about the conditions.
00:55 However, we know that Hamas will be releasing captives, Israeli captives, while Israel
01:03 will be releasing Palestinian prisoners.
01:07 The ratio is actually 10 to 100.
01:11 Hamas will be releasing 10 of women and children, while Israel will be releasing 100 of women
01:16 and children.
01:17 According to Hamas, Israel Jabees, who is a Palestinian prisoner, and she was one of
01:23 the patients, actually, inside the Israeli jails, especially that she was burned and
01:28 she was suffering from her burns.
01:30 And also Ahmad Manasra, who got arrested when he was only 11 years ago, will be in the head
01:37 of the list.
01:38 Hamas required the release of them.
01:41 Meanwhile, here on the ground in Gaza, the Israeli warplanes continue striking several
01:46 places in northern Gaza, middle Gaza, and also southern Gaza.
01:50 And as the nighttime here approaches in Gaza, Palestinians fear the fact that the Israeli
01:58 warplanes intensifies its attack on the Gaza Strip during the night.
02:04 Talking about the numbers, according to the Palestinian governmental media office, the
02:09 number of Palestinians that were killed in the past six weeks is up to more than 13,000.
02:17 More than 6,000 of them are children.