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title: "Israel-Hamas truce will begin at 7 a.m. local time Friday, Qatar says"
url: https://radiomoldova.md/p/25620/israel-hamas-truce-will-begin-at-7-a-m-local-time-friday-qatar-says
published: 2023-11-23T18:22:37Z
language: en
section: "International"
source: radiomoldova.md
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# Israel-Hamas truce will begin at 7 a.m. local time Friday, Qatar says

> A truce between Israel and Hamas will begin at 7 a.m. local time (midnight ET) on Friday, and civilian hostages will be released at 4 p.m. local time, Qatar announced Thursday, CNN reports.

A truce between Israel and Hamas will begin at 7 a.m. local time (midnight ET) on Friday, and civilian hostages will be released at 4 p.m. local time, Qatar announced Thursday, CNN reports.

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Thirteen women and children will be released, according to a spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry, Majed Al-Ansari.

An undisclosed number of Palestinian prisoners are also set to be released around 4 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET), after the hostages are freed from Gaza, the Qatari spokesperson said in a news conference.

The route the freed hostages will take cannot be disclosed for safety reasons, Al-Ansari said in response to a question from CNN. Qatar will be working closely on the operation with the Red Cross and “parties of the conflict.”

> #BREAKING : Qatar foreign ministry on Gaza humanitarian pause deal: - Truce to start at 07 AM local time on November 24 - Lists of civilians to be released from Gaza received - Humanitarian aid will start flowing into Gaza as soon as truce begins pic.twitter.com/t0SGXvggb2 — TRT World (@trtworld) November 23, 2023

The list of hostages expected to be released has been handed to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, and talks between all mediating parties continued until this morning, Al-Ansari said.