A ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza.

After 15 months of fighting and tens of thousands of people killed,

President Joe Biden made this announcement from the White House this afternoon.

At long last, I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Amas.

This comes after months of back-and- forth negotiations mediated by the U.S.

and Qatar. The deal will release Israelis who were taken by Hamas fighters during the October 7th,

2023 attacks and held hostage inside Gaza ever since. Israel will pause its fighting in Gaza and release

Palestinian prisoners.

For more on the details of this deal, we turn to the world's shirenjafari.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office put out a statement today saying that several items have yet to be finalized

and that they hope that this can be done soon.

I also want to be clear here that even if everybody agrees to this deal, it will have to be formally ratified by the Israeli cabinet.

So there are still some moving parts.

But I do have a draft of the deal in front of me.

A Hamas official shared this document with me today.

And what I see here is that this deal is going

to happen in three phases. In the first one, Hamas is going to release 33 Israeli hostages. These are

mainly women, children, and older adults, as well as people who've been injured. And in exchange,

Israel will release a number of Palestinian prisoners.

It will also start withdrawing its troops from parts of the Gaza Strip.

That means Palestinians who have been displaced can return to what is left of their homes.

And then aid is going to start to get into the ship.

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