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The pause is to be extended an extra day for the release of every 10 additional hostages, Israel said, adding that its forces will resume the war afterward. President Biden welcomed the deal in a statement that also thanked the leaders of Qatar and Egypt. Three Americans — two women and a girl — are expected to be among those released in the first wave of hostages, a senior Biden administration official told The Washington Post.
The final legal steps of enacting the agreement began Wednesday with the publication of a list of about 300 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. The law allows Israeli citizens who have been victims of militant attacks to challenge the release of prisoners at the Supreme Court. At least one advocacy group, the Almagor Terror Victims Association, filed a petition Wednesday to block the deal, according to Israeli media. The court rejected the appeal Wednesday evening. The list of detainees includes 123 minors.
Even now, the agreement will require delicate communication to hold, as hostages are moved through a hair-trigger war zone and released in batches over four days, The Post reports.
More than 11,100 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which said on Nov. 10 that it could no longer provide an updated count because of the intensity of fighting in the enclave and repeated communication breakdowns. The ministry estimates that at least 2,000 more could be dead. At least 1,200 people were killed in Israel in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
