Egyptian security source - whose country has been mediating between the sides - said they had agreed in principle to a mutual halt in hostilities.

The Israeli security cabinet voted to accept a ceasefire late Thursday as the Israeli south and Gaza remain inflamed.

The security cabinet unanimously agreed to a "mutual and unconditional" cessation of hostilities, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.

The ceasefire will begin at 2:00 a.m. Israel media reported. A Hamas official confirmed the hour, according to Walla news.

However, the PMO added, "reality on the ground will determine the continuation of the campaign," implying that they are keeping with the principle of "quiet would be met by quiet."

A Hamas official confirmed to Reuters that the ceasefire would be "mutual and simultaneous."

Top international envoys had worked feverishly to end the war while Israel’s security cabinet debated the details of a restoration of calm in a late-night meeting.

US President Joe Biden spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about ceasefire efforts, while US Vice President Kamala Harris talked with Jordan's King Abdullah.

According to Kan News, Israel’s National Security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, received a proposal from the Egyptians for a restoration of calm. Egypt along with the UN and others were working on a truce 11 days after Hamas escalated tensions by launching rockets at Jerusalem.

“We have seen reports of a move toward a potential ceasefire,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington. “That’s clearly encouraging. We believe the Israelis have achieved significant military objectives that they laid out to achieve, in relation to protecting their people and to responding to the thousands of rocket attacks from Hamas. So that’s why, in part, we feel they’re in a position to start winding their operation down.”

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the United Nations, told a special General Assembly meeting that the US was working to attain a trust, and that “in the hours and days ahead, we will continue to relentlessly push for peace.”

US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel and Palestinian Affairs, Hady Amr, remained on the ground to advance those efforts.
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland was in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, “on an official visit as part of the United Nations’ intensified efforts to restore calm in Gaza and Israel,” a diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post. “The UN is actively engaged with all the relevant parties in order to de-escalate the situation on the ground.”

Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal are based in Qatar, and Haniyeh met with Wennesland, a diplomatic source said.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UNGA that Wennesland had “undertaken extensive diplomatic efforts within the region, including with Egypt, Jordan and Qatar and with key partners in the international community, to encourage all sides to halt the violence. We are engaging directly with the parties to the conflict, including Hamas, in our efforts to secure an end to hostilities.”

Guterres also held a meeting with Arab ministers to discuss the current situation, according to his spokesperson Stephan Dujarric.

During a Wednesday phone call between Biden and Netanyahu, the US president said he “expected a significant de-escalation on the path to a ceasefire.”

Netanyahu told Biden that the operation will continue until Israeli citizens are secure, and repeated that line in subsequent public statements But on Thursday, the matter of timing was absent from Netanyahu’s statements, as it focused more on the Iranian origin of an armed drone shot down over Israel earlier this week.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Hmmm. I still can't tie my head around a country living on handouts from US forming super power.
US had donated cash directly and indirectly up to $500 Billion yet Isreal has not grown and developed even near as much as Norway!

They don't have a good leader in Netanyahu and I just see the sense in why he lost the election and now on investigation for corruption.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Hmmm. I still can't tie my head around a country living on handouts from US forming super power.
US had donated cash directly and indirectly up to $500 Billion yet Isreal has not grown and developed even near as much as Norway!

They don't have a good leader in Netanyahu and I just see the sense in why he lost the election and now on investigation for corruption.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Hmmm. I still can't tie my head around a country living on handouts from US forming super power.
US had donated cash directly and indirectly up to $500 Billion yet Isreal has not grown and developed even near as much as Norway!

They don't have a good leader in Netanyahu and I just see the sense in why he lost the election and now on investigation for corruption.

Righteousness2:
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

The Whole Earth Benefits from Israel.
America without Israel will be Shattered and Battered!

Israel is the only Nation on Earth that survive on its own

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Hmmm. I still can't tie my head around a country living on handouts from US forming super power.
US had donated cash directly and indirectly up to $500 Billion yet Isreal has not grown and developed even near as much as Norway!

They don't have a good leader in Netanyahu and I just see the sense in why he lost the election and now on investigation for corruption.

Ladyhippolyta88:


Facts do not agree with you.

The man stated facts go and get knowledge and stop quoting condense that you don't know about.

Survive on its own indeed.LOL

Righteousness2:
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[s]Clear your Eyes!
The Darkness blocking your eyes are huge[/s]

Righteousness2:
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[s]Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

The Whole Earth today Benefits from Israel. There is no Nation on Earth that does not benefit from Israel .

America without Israel or the Jews will be Shattered and Battered!

Israel is the only Nation on Earth that survive on its own[/s]

FreeStuffssNG:
After 11 days of using American tax payers money and arms to kill children in Gaza?

Netanyahu is gone. He didn't try at all. Thank God for the leaders with conscience who prevailed on him and US to stop the killings.

8 deaths in Isreal and 237 deaths in Palestine

barojana:

Lol handouts in what way.
Both USA and Israel have a mutually beneficial relationship.
Isreal has the second highest concentration of high valued startups in the world second only to US. It is home to the research and dev hq of most high tech brands like HP, Intel etc.
Jews holds the highest number of Nobel prizes held by any ethnic population.

It has over a thousand ultra high networth individuals which pack $744 billion in combined wealth within a population of just 8 million people packed within a country the size of Oyo state. Coming only second to UAE ($825 Billion) and far ahead of Saudi ($482 Billion) and Turkey ($422 B) and Iran ($266B).

Without no oil, it has now surpassed the UAE this year for the second highest Gdp per capita in the Middle East ($43000) surpassing Saudi, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman etc.

Know wetin you dey talk.

Lalasticlala

Vaughanlanrewaj:


Good evening sir. Go and read what Christ told the Jews as He weeps over Jerusalem in Luke 19:41-44 sir.
Meanwhile, let's stop perpetuating ignorance. Isreal is not a Christian nation and has never been. Judaism is 74%, Islam is 17% and Christians are in the minority of 4%. My city of Lagos is more Christian than Isreal. Now it's about the character of their leader and this time, he was shocked that the international community did not allow it and expect more justice for the Palestinians in days to come. Let them have the 2 states solution that has been proposed for years and opposed by Netanyahu.

Vaughanlanrewaj:


You obviously think we are still in the stone age where they hijack the narratives and use state financed PR books like Why Nations Fail to decieve and paint a false narrative of Isreal as an Eldorado. There's nothing mutually beneficial, it is a big brother(USA) protecting the pampered privileged small brother for decades! Perhaps until now when there's a first time in American history Palestinian member of congress in the American congress.

The country called Isreal spent so much on PR that you will be shocked at the level of reality that youths in Isreal no longer go to school and most jobs being created within Isreal now are low level jobs. As I type here, employment data in Lagos is far better than the whole of Isreal yet there are just around 9m people whereas my state population is around 20m.

Isreal is a mediocre country that has the lowest development data among all the members of the OECD yet has time and money to fight and incite wars against their conquered neighbours . I feel so proud of our achievements in Lagos and as a Nigerian when I saw how well above Lagos is above Isreal in some developmental parameters and I thank God we did the work in Lagos instead of investing heavily on lies and PR like Isreal .

Righteousness2:


You keep misquoting Scriptures! I am so sure you don't even understand what u quoted.

Let me give the benefit of doubt,
Pls explain what u understand in the Bible passage you quoted

Ladyhippolyta88:



They don't know that America sells weapons to Israel and that America gives Israel $4 billion in aid yearly from American tax payers Israel is the highest recipient in aid from America more than any other country.

iampeterben:
Its a great news and great relieve to the world. Let's continue to preach PEACE.

Vaughanlanrewaj:


You don't owe me anything sir so don't feel pressured to sound as if you are under obligation sir. I am not into this end time pentacostalism, I am a Christian, I am not into Pentecostal denominationism sir and I am grateful to God.

However, I appreciate that you dropped your arrogance of cancelling the views thst you could have just asked for better clarification sir.
Luke 19:41-44 is clear and some translations explained it better but there is a prophetic dimension that preceded that account and it is in the old testament. The ignorance of the Jews, just like today that they still reject Christ, is responsible for the siege.
That Jews, especially the Pharisees, did not remember the prophecy in the book of Zechariah that foretold the triumphant entry of the Prince of Prince and didn't recognise the Lamb of God while they were having their Passover feast with the Lamb (Ileya) on the 10th Day of Nisan with is 6th of April ,32 AD when it was calculated and converted to the Gregorian calendar.

And while the Apostles sing Hosana, the Jews were more interested in their faaji and Christ wept and made that pronouncement on Israel. It came to pass in 70 AD and till today, they are still living inside the embankment Christ himself pronounced in Luke 19:41-44

Righteousness2:


Brother! Stop Confusing Yourself!

Neglecting The Gospel of Salvation Comes with its Consequence is the summary of the Scriptures you quoted.

JESUS Christ gave a Prophecy of what was to happen to Jerusalem because of their blindness to the Gospel of Salvation.

That prophecy came to Pass around A.D 70.
The Romans besieged the city, cast a trench about it , and compassed it round.
This was done for their crucifying of JESUS Christ, which was because they knew not the Day of their visitation.

The Jews have longed been restored to their Land in 1948. Which was a Prophecy that the Prophet Isaiah said will Happen.

Go read Psalm 83, Isah 37 , Isah 38, Jeremiah 30, Zechariah 12, Zechariah 14 and so on. So as to know the Program of the Endtime Israel. That is the Israel of our time.
We are the Fig tree Generation. The Generation that witnessed the Rebirth of the Nation of Israel. We are the Generation of the RAPTURE, the Great Tribulation and so on..

The Bible is not a story book or book of Fiction where you just quote whatever.

Everything playing out on Earth Today is right in the Bible. Search the Scriptures so you don't be lost in World.

Vaughanlanrewaj:


You still don't get it. Good night sir. I am happy that children will stop dying from the narcissistic Netanyahu and Gaza militants to give room for you guys to confuse the death of young ones or sinners as great joy.

Vaughanlanrewaj:


Till date, US has given almost $500 Billion to Isreal in cash, aid military hardware etc which is 5 times more than US gave Europe after the second world war.
Unlike Europe, especially Western Germany, that used the aid to develop themselves and became a powerful economic bloc today, Isreal has remained mediocre and still can't survive without US hand out. Imagine $4 Billion being dashed to 9m people yet this week alone, we had to get request for a loan of around $3Billion for 200m people yet a state like Lagos is far ahead of Isreal in some developmental parameters like Employment .