The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip will go into effect at 8:30 Palestine time, tomorrow morning, Sunday.

"Based on the agreement between the parties to the agreement and the mediators, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, local time in Gaza," ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said on the X platform.

The ministry recommended the necessity of "taking precautions, exercising the utmost caution, and waiting for instructions from official sources."

Earlier on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza announced the start of the deployment of its devices in the governorates of the Strip with the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement tomorrow, Sunday.

On Friday evening, the private Cairo News Channel reported, quoting an informed source whose identity was not revealed, that an international meeting hosted by Cairo had ended with an agreement to form an operations room that includes Egypt, Palestine, Qatar, the United States, and Israel to follow up on the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

Last Wednesday, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, announced the success of the efforts of the mediators (Doha, Cairo and Washington) in reaching an agreement to cease fire in Gaza and exchange prisoners, with implementation to begin tomorrow, Sunday.

The Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement consists of 3 stages, each lasting 42 days.

The first stage includes a temporary cessation of mutual military operations, and the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from populated areas in Gaza, including the Netzarim axis, to areas adjacent to the border.

The agreement also stipulates, during the first phase, the opening of the Rafah crossing (south of the Gaza Strip) after 7 days from the start of its implementation, the entry of 600 trucks of humanitarian aid daily, and the gradual release of 33 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, whether alive or dead, in exchange for 1,904 Palestinian prisoners, according to what the Israeli Army Radio reported, and 1,737 prisoners, according to press statements by the head of the Palestinian Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority, Qadura Fares.

The Israeli occupation is also gradually reducing its forces in the Rafah crossing area on the Philadelphi axis in the first phase.

The second phase of the agreement relates to the return of complete and sustainable calm, the exchange of additional numbers of prisoners and detainees, and the complete withdrawal of the occupation forces from Gaza.

The third phase focuses on starting a plan to rebuild Gaza over a period of 3 to 5 years, exchanging the bodies and remains of the dead held by both parties, opening all crossings, and allowing the free movement of people and goods.

All the measures of the first phase will continue to be implemented in the second phase of the agreement, as long as negotiations on the terms continue, with the guarantors of the agreement (Egypt, Qatar and the United States) exerting their utmost efforts to ensure the continuation of indirect negotiations until the two parties can reach an agreement on the terms of implementing the second phase.

With American support, the Israeli occupation has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 157,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.