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The first six-week phase of the deal  will see 33 Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian  prisoners.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu's office said an "agreement for the release  of the hostages"  had been  reached.
Netanyahu had delayed a cabinet vote to approve the Gaza ceasefire  deal scheduled for Thursday, accusing Hamas of seeking to  change the  deal at the last minute.
On Friday morning, the  Prime Minister's Office said  it had been informed by the negotiating team that  an agreement on the deal had been  reached.
It added that the security cabinet would meet later on Friday to ratify the  deal, before  seeking approval from the full  government. The families of the hostages have been  informed. Representatives from Israel, Hamas, the United  States and Qatar officially signed the  agreement in Doha, Israeli media  reported.
The ceasefire  agreement was first announced on Wednesday by mediators  from the  United States and  Qatar.
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Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said the agreement would  take effect on Sunday,  provided it is approved by the Israeli  cabinet.
At the time, Netanyahu said the final details  of the agreement were still being worked  out, but thanked Biden for  "promoting it."
Netanyahu then delayed a cabinet vote to approve the  agreement on Thursday, accusing Hamas of trying to  "extort last-minute concessions." Hamas has said it  is committed to the deal, but the BBC understands it was trying to add some of its members to the list of Palestinian prisoners  to be released under the  deal.
Although Israeli negotiators  accept the deal, which follows months of  discussions, cannot be implemented until it is approved by the security cabinet and  the government.
Two right-wing ministers, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who are both members of the security cabinet and oppose the deal, have said they will resign in  protest.
But they have signalled they will not join the opposition - to bring  down the government -  for now, until fighting resumes in six  weeks, when  the first phase of the ceasefire and  the release  of hostages will be completed.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he  expected the ceasefire to  begin on Sunday as planned with the release of the first three Israeli  hostages. Many Palestinians and  families of Israeli  hostages celebrated news of the ceasefire after it was first  announced.
But there  has been no  let-up in the  ground war in Gaza, with Israeli strikes killing 113 people since the deal was announced, including 28 children,  said a spokesman for the Gaza  Civil Defense, Mahmoud  Basal. More than 260 others have been  wounded.
Attacks have been carried out on 50 targets in Gaza since the  deal was announced, the Israel Defense Forces and the  Israel Security Agency said  Thursday.
EPA Palestinian women mourn  family members killed in an Israeli airstrike at  the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in  the city of Deir Al  Balah, central Gaza Strip, January  15, 2024. EPA
Israeli attacks have continued in Gaza since the ceasefire  agreement was  announced.
The first six-week phase of the deal  sees 33 hostages - including women, children and  the elderly - exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli  jails. Israeli troops  are also  withdrawing to the east, away from densely populated areas of  Gaza.
Displaced Palestinians  can begin returning  home and hundreds of aid  trucks will be allowed  into the territory  every day.
Negotiations for the second phase - which  would see the  release of the remaining  hostages, a full  withdrawal of Israeli  troops and a return to  "lasting calm" -  are due to begin on the  16th.
The third and final  step would involve the return of  the bodies of the remaining  hostages and the reconstruction of Gaza - which could take  years.
Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas - which is  considered a terrorist organisation by Israel, the  United States and others - in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, in which  some 1,200 people were killed and 251  injured. . others taken  hostage. Since then, more than 46,788 people have been killed in  Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health  ministry.
Most of Gaza's 2.3 million  residents have been displaced,  destruction is widespread and shortages of food, fuel, medicine and  shelter are severe, as aid agencies struggle to  provide aid to those in  need.
Israel says 94 of the hostages are still being held by Hamas, 34 of whom are presumed dead.  Four Israelis were  kidnapped before the war, two of whom  have died.

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