Israel, Hamas, a Hostage Deal and a Four-Day Pause

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Under the terms of the agreement, Hamas will return 50 captives, while Israel will free 150 Palestinian prisoners and pause fighting for four days. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that the effort to root out Hamas terrorists is not over. Plus, Joe Biden faces a backlash to his Israel policy from bureaucrats in Washington's deep state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Israel agrees to a short-term ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the release of some hostages as more
0:55.6	than 1500 federal bureaucrats revolt against Joe Biden's policy in the region.
1:01.1	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues
1:06.2	at the editorial page, Elliot Kaufman, and Kim Strassal. The exact details of the deal between Israel and Hamas are still coming in as we tape this on Wednesday and some of them might be in the process yet of getting hammered out.
1:19.0	But Elliot, can you give us a sense of the broad terms and what this means on the ground?
1:24.6	Sure.
1:25.6	So the basic exchange here going on is that around 50 Israeli hostages,
1:33.0	primarily children, their mothers, some other women,
1:38.0	are being released in exchange for four days of a pause in Israeli military operations,
1:47.3	as well as around 150 Palestinian terrorists criminals who are in Israeli prisons and jails right now.
1:57.0	That's the first phase of the deal.
2:00.0	The second phase is that if Hamas gets its hands on more hostages that it suddenly finds,
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