A child feeds another a spoonful of food as they sit atop graves at a cemetery where families displaced by conflict are taking shelter in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Key points
Tentative deal for a six-week ceasefire
Negotiations were brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and USA
Over 46,700 Palestinians have been killed by Israel
ISLAMABAD: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, according to a Reuters report citing an official briefed on the deal.
Israel and Hamas have reached a tentative deal for a six-week ceasefire. The agreement includes the release of 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Negotiations were brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States. Over 46,700 Palestinians have been killed during 15 months of Israeli bombardment.
Here is a look at the 15 months of Israeli war on Gaza in pictures.
Gaza in ruins
This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke plumes rising from explosions above destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2025 (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)Men and children stand next to a destroyed car amidst debris and rubble by a collapsed building at the site of Israeli bombardment on a residential block in Jalaa Street in Gaza City on January 14, 2025 Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)A man walks through the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes at the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on January 12, 2025, as the war between Israel and Hamas militants continues. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Resilience of a people
A girl walks outside in the courtyard of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City during the Christmas morning service on January 7, 2025 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)A Palestinian woman carries her cat outside her tent at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians, during a storm in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, amid the continuing war between Israel and the militant Hamas group. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)Palestinian children, displaced from their homes, smile for a picture at the school where they took refuge in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 28, 2024,. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)A boy plays with a rubber tyre next to the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on January 11, 2025, as the war between Israel and Hamas militants continues. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)Palestinian children help push a car as people evacuate from their homes with their belongings, after received evacuation orders from the Israeli military, at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 18, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)Palestinians stand in wait for a food portion at a distribution centre south of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 17, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)Palestinian boys share a plate of food in their displacement tent at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 24, 2024. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Stop this war!
Demonstrators raise placards during an protest in front of the Israeli defence ministry in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2025 demanding an end to the war. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)
Ceasefire celebrations
Palestinians celebrate following the declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port of Sidon late on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)Palestinian children celebrate at their camp for people displaced by conflict at Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
