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20 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hamas official confirms a 'mutual and simultaneous' truce with Israel will begin on Friday at 2 a.m.
Israeli cabinet confirms Gaza truce decision but says the hour has yet to be agreed to
Israel's security cabinet said it had voted unanimously in favor of a 'mutual and unconditional' Gaza truce proposed by mediator Egypt, bringing a potentially tenuous halt to the fiercest fighting in decades reut.rs/3hHzPhe
President Biden hailed a ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas. He added that the U.S. would help Gaza with humanitarian relief aid and also replenish Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system reut.rs/3vd6S0A

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