Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari said that the announcement of the date for the entry into force of the truce agreement in Gaza will be in the coming hours, indicating that talks on the details of the executive plan for the humanitarian truce agreement between Hamas and Israel are continuing and progressing positively.

Al-Ansari added - in a statement - that "work continues with the two parties and our partners in the sisterly Arab Republic of Egypt and the United States of America to ensure the rapid start of the truce and to provide what is necessary to ensure the parties' commitment to the agreement."

For his part, Taher Al-Nono, advisor to the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said that Qatar, Egypt and the United States are guarantors of the ceasefire, explaining that lists of prisoners are now being exchanged and verified.

He also explained that there is a role for the Red Cross and the United Nations in the exchange deal, but he did not clarify what the role assigned to the two organizations was, and Hamas had handed over some of its prisoners for humanitarian reasons to the Red Cross, which transferred the released prisoners to the Israeli occupation army through the Rafah crossing.

Logistical details

For her part, US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson expressed her hope that the truce would begin tomorrow morning, Friday, saying that the parties to the agreement are working on setting the final logistical details for the truce agreement in Gaza, especially on its first day.

Watson described these preparations as "on the right track."

CNN also quoted an Israeli official as saying that Israel's failure to receive the names of those Hamas will release is one of the reasons for delaying the implementation of the temporary truce agreement in Gaza.

The Israeli official said that the delay in releasing detainees in Gaza is not serious, and is due to simple details related to the implementation of the agreement.

In the same context, Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi said that the release of detainees under the temporary truce agreement with Hamas will not take place before Friday.

He added - in a statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office - that "negotiations for the release of our prisoners are progressing and continuing all the time."

He continued to say that "the start of the release (of the prisoners) will take place in accordance with the original agreement between the two parties, and not before Friday."

For its part, the Kan channel, affiliated with the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, quoted an official in the Prime Minister’s Office as saying, “No one said that there would be a release of the kidnapped people tomorrow (Thursday), except in the media.”

He added, "It was also reported in the media that Israel obtained a list of the names of those released, but this did not actually happen."

"Therefore, we have to make it clear that they are not scheduled to be released before Friday, because the families of the kidnapped are in a state of extreme uncertainty," he added.

According to the same source, “the war on Thursday will continue as usual,” as he put it.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies