Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after meeting with the families of detainees in the Gaza Strip that he is ready for a permanent ceasefire on condition that all detainees are returned.

Netanyahu added, according to Channel 12, that the deal is a matter of days or hours.

Netanyahu continued: We are waiting for the other party's response, and then the deal will be announced immediately.

Netanyahu said that Hamas has not yet responded, and that everything being circulated now is just speculation.

He pointed out that "once President Trump enters, the rules of the game will change fundamentally. For any breach of the ceasefire, there will be harsh and strong responses and a way of fighting that we have not seen before."

A Hamas official told Reuters that the movement has not yet submitted its response because Tel Aviv has not yet submitted the maps that will show the areas to which it will withdraw.

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Channel 12 reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding an emergency meeting this evening with leaders of the security establishment regarding developments in the exchange deal.

Channel 13 reported that Netanyahu will hold an emergency video call with the head of Mossad in Qatar regarding the exchange deal.

Earlier, an official in the Israeli occupation entity reported that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including those convicted of killing settlers, would be released under the agreement, according to CNN.

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The official added that Palestinian civilians will be allowed to return to the northern Gaza Strip freely under the agreement.

He added that the occupation army will begin its withdrawal from population centers during the first phase and will remain in the Philadelphia Corridor, according to the American network.

He added that a buffer zone will be maintained inside Gaza along the Strip's border with the Israeli occupation.

He added that negotiations on the second and third phases of the agreement will begin on the sixteenth day of the agreement's implementation.