Palestinian group Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire with Israel after more than 460 days of war that has devastated Gaza.
Israel has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians since launching war on the enclave in October 2023. Israel has yet to formally respond to the deal, but a government vote is expected on Thursday, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announcing that the deal has been signed.
The deal reportedly includes a temporary ceasefire that would temporarily end the destruction of Gaza and release Gazan captives and many prisoners held by Israel. The deal will also eventually allow displaced Palestinians to return to their homes - although many of those homes no longer exist following Israeli sabotage operations.
The text of the deal has not been officially released, but here's what we know so far, according to reports from Al Jazeera Arabic, Reuters and the Associated Press.
The initial phase will last six weeks and include limited prisoner exchanges, the withdrawal of some Israeli troops from Gaza and the delivery of significant aid to the enclave.
Thirty-three Israeli prisoners, including women, children and civilians over 50 years old, captured during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, will be released. In exchange, Israel will release approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners during this phase, including 250 prisoners serving life sentences. Approximately 1,000 of the Palestinians released were detained after 7 October.
Along with the prisoner exchange, Israel will also withdraw its troops from Gaza's population centers to areas no more than 700 meters within the Gaza-Israel border. However, this may not include the Nezarim Corridor, the militarized strip that bisects the Gaza Strip and controls movement along it - and the withdrawal from Nezarim is expected to occur in phases.
Israel will allow civilians to return to their besieged homes in the north of the enclave, where aid agencies have warned of a possible famine, and allow massive amounts of aid to enter the enclave - as many as 600 trucks a day.
Israel will also allow injured Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment and open the Rafah crossing to Egypt seven days after the first phase of implementation.
Israeli forces will reduce their presence in the Philadelphia Corridor along the border between Egypt and Gaza before withdrawing completely at a later stage.
Details of phases two and three, while agreed in principle, will be negotiated during phase one.
Crucially, Israel insists it does not provide any written guarantees to rule out the possibility of resuming attacks once the first phase is completed and civilian captives are returned.
However, the three mediators involved in the talks - Egypt, Qatar and the United States - have given verbal assurances to Hamas that talks will continue and that all three will press for a deal, the Associated Press reported, citing Egyptian sources. Phases two and three will be implemented before the end of the initial six-week window.
If Israel determines that the conditions of the second phase have been met, Hamas will release all remaining living prisoners, mostly male soldiers, in exchange for the release of more Palestinians held in the Israeli prison system. Additionally, according to current documents, Israel will initiate a "comprehensive withdrawal" from Gaza.
However, these conditions, which have not yet been voted on by the Israeli cabinet, are at odds with the stated positions of many far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu’s cabinet, on whom he relies for support. As Netanyahu himself has done in the past, he has repeatedly exploited Hamas' presence in Gaza to prolong the conflict.
Details of Phase 3 remain unclear.
According to the draft, if the conditions of the second phase are met, the third phase will hand over the bodies of the remaining captives in exchange for a three- to five-year reconstruction plan under international supervision.
There is still no agreement on who will run Gaza after the ceasefire. The United States has urged the Palestinian Authority to implement reforms to achieve this goal.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that post-war reconstruction and governance envisions the Palestinian Authority inviting "international partners" to establish an interim administration to manage key services and oversee the territory.
He told a speech at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, that other partners, particularly Arab states, would provide troops to ensure short-term security.
For the plan to work, it will need the support of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, which have said they will only support it if there is a path to Palestinian statehood. Although Israel agreed to a two-state solution in the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, this provided another point of contention for Israeli lawmakers.
Israel has yet to propose an alternative form of governance in Gaza.