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Netanyahu says Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal has been finalized after blaming Hamas for "last-minute crisis"

Anxiety in Gaza, Israel over ceasefire
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced early Friday local time that Israel has finalized its ceasefire agreement with the militant group Hamas that will see the release of hostages held in Gaza. 

Netanyahu's office said in a statement that the prime minister "has been updated by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a deal for the release of the hostages."

Netanyahu's security cabinet was meeting Friday to consider the deal. The exact details of the updated negotiations were not immediately provided. 

This comes after the two sides previously announced Wednesday that they had reached a ceasefire agreement, news which brought jubilation to thousands of people across the decimated Palestinian territory and in Israel. 

However, that joy was constrained by anxiety on Thursday, with those jitters fueled by both increasing bloodshed in Gaza and doubt cast by Israel's leader on the solidity of the deal announced the previous evening. 

Netanyahu said Thursday that a "last-minute crisis" with Hamas was delaying Israel's final approval of the long-sought truce. Israeli media reports suggested the delay was likely down to Netanyahu trying to buy time to deal with nationalist hardliners in his cabinet who've always fiercely opposed any agreement with Hamas.

"We fully expect the deal to proceed as described yesterday, and on the timeline that we've laid out, so implementation beginning as soon as Sunday with a ceasefire and the release of the first hostages," U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Jonathan Finer said Thursday on "CBS Mornings," acknowledging "a set of implementation details and conditions that are going to be a challenge throughout the implementation of this deal, which is going to extend well into the next administration."  

Finer said President Biden had spoken with Netanyahu "twice in the last few days, including yesterday after the agreement was reached in Doha."  

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The deal is a fragile one, and the logistics of it will be extremely complex — even Hamas getting the hostages safely to a handover point will present significant security challenges.

The agreement is not set to take effect until Sunday, and with Israel's military increasing attacks in Gaza rather than easing them in the wake of the deal — and none of the roughly 100 hostages expected to come home for several days — nobody who spoke with CBS News on either side of the border seemed ready to take for granted the peace looming tantalizingly just over the horizon.

In Gaza, "a new chance to live"

For Gazans, it was the best possible news. Hearing that the relentless bombing of their towns and villages would stop on Sunday brought overwhelming relief and joy.

One little boy who spoke to CBS News' team in the enclave summed it up in three words: "We're going home!"

Mahmood Kurdia, who's been living in the southern city of Khan Younis after being forced from his home in northern Gaza, said he couldn't wait to get back, even though he knows he has virtually nothing to go back to.

"I want to go back home to see my family, my neighbors and my home. Even though my home is just ruins now, but I still want to see it. I want to remove the rubble and put my tent on the top of the ruins and say to Israel that I'm back," he told CBS News on Wednesday."

Like everyone else, however, he was keenly aware that peace, if it is coming, is still three days away.

Israel appeared to ramp up its strikes Wednesday evening, killing more than 70 people between the ceasefire deal being announced and Thursday morning, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health and the enclave's Civil Defense rescue agency. Both agencies told CBS News that the dead including 21 children and 24 women.

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People look at damage caused by an Israeli airstrike that hit tents outside a mosque in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement was announced by the U.S. and Qatar, Jan. 15, 2025. CBS News

Still, Kurdia couldn't help cling to hope.

"This news means a new chance to live," he said. "This means a new chance for us to live and watch our children live, grow and get education. It is just a new hope for survival. This is the ceasefire deal we hope to get."

Israeli hostage's cousin happy — but "not breathing"

In Tel Aviv, a small crowd gathered Wednesday night on the spot where protesters have, week after week, demanded that Israel's government bring the remaining hostages home.

Yifat Kalderon was among them. Her cousin Ofer was among the 251 people kidnapped during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that saw militants kill some 1,200 people, and which sparked the war that has raged for almost 480 days.

Ofer was among the dozens of people kidnapped by the gunmen who stormed Kibbutz Nir Oz. Over the age of 50, he should be among the hostages released by Hamas in the first phase of the three-phase ceasefire agreement.

But asked if she felt a huge relief on Wednesday night, Kalderon made it clear that emotion would have to wait.

"No," she said. "I'm going to feel a huge relief when it's going to be done. When are we going to get all the 90-98 hostages alive and the dead ones back home."

Ifat Kalderon, cousin of Israeli hostage Ofer Kalderon hold
Ifat Kalderon, cousin of Israeli hostage Ofer Kalderon, holds up a sign with his photo during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 15, 2025. Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty

With bombs still falling in Gaza and little to indicate any new level of trust between Israel and Hamas, hostages' families all across Israel were left to keep waiting, and worrying about everything that could still go wrong.

"I'm not saying that I'm not happy," Kalderon said. "But I'm trying to, you know, take care of myself, not to be, you know, I don't want to - I want to see them, first of all. Until I'm going to see them crossing the border… I'm not going to believe anything."

"I'm not breathing until that — we're going to get them all back home."

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