The long-awaited agreement between Israel and Hamas will include a five-day truce during which 50 hostages held by Palestinian Islamist group will be released in exchange for 300 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, they told the agency EFE Egyptian security sources.

The sources, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue, explained that the truce “It will last five days, during which there will be a complete cessation of flights” Israeli drones over the Gaza Strip.

“The agreement includes the release of 50 prisoners held by the resistance (Hamas), including settlers and foreigners. in exchange for 300 (Palestinian) prisoners, children and women,” the sources said.

They explained that the release of hostages and prisoners “It will be carried out in stages, at the rate of 10 Israeli prisoners per day. in front of 30 Palestinian prisoners.”

They also stressed that the pact would also allow entry into the Gaza Strip 300 trucks with food, medical and fuel assistance.

These statements coincide with urgent statements from the Egyptian TV channel Al Qahera News, in which a “high-ranking source” assured that “Egypt has stepped up its efforts” and “joint coordination with Qatar” to achieve a humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas and the exchange of hostages and prisoners.

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The head of Hamas’s political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, a Qatari resident, said on Tuesday that he close to concluding a truce with Israel, after a month and a half of war that has left more than 14,500 people dead, the vast majority of them in the Gaza Strip.

“The movement conveyed its response to the brothers in Qatar and the mediators, and “We are close to concluding a truce agreement.”Haniyeh, who spent years in exile in Qatar, said in a brief statement posted on Telegram.

Israel declared war on Hamas on October 7 following an attack by the Islamist group that included rocket fire and infiltration of some 3,000 militias who killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 240 people in Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip.

Since then, Israeli air, naval and ground forces have counterattacked the Palestinian enclave, where More than 13,300 people died, most of them children and women. as well as more than 6,500 missing people who may have been trapped under the rubble, so the death toll could be even higher.

(according to information from EFE)