ISRAEL HAMAS DEAL

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Context

• A deal between Israel and Hamas for a temporary cease-fire is expected to go into effect.

What’s in the deal?

• The agreement is for at least a four-day pause in hostilities.
• During that time, at least 50 women and children — who were abducted — would be exchanged for 150 Palestinian women and minors imprisoned in Israeli jails.
• The deal also includes an increase in humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip.
• Hamas said that 200 trucks carrying relief supplies and four fuel trucks would enter the territory each day during the four-day pause. Israeli officials did not immediately comment.
• Israel said its warplanes would not fly over southern Gaza for the duration of the cease-fire, and would not fly over the northern part of the territory for six hours each day.

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