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As we've just reported, the ceasefire may have been signed but air strikes in Gaza have continued, with Gaza's civil defence agency reporting more people killed in the past day.

"I woke up to a familiar sound of buzzing of drones flying over the skies of Gaza", says spokeswoman Rosalia Bollen, spokeswoman for the UN's children’s agency Unicef.

Bollen tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme the ceasefire deal was met with great joy in Gaza "but in the meantime attacks have continued, air strikes have been reported with dozens of people reported killed".

"So this ceasefire still needs to materialise," she says - and that returning children to their homes will be one of the first things Unicef wants to do when the ceasefire comes into effect.

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More than 100 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli strikes since the ceasefire deal was announced on Wednesday night, Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency says in an updated death toll this morning.

Spokesman Mahmoud Basal says 101 people, including 27 children and 31 women, have been killed and more than 264 wounded.

He says nine people were killed in an Israeli strike last night on a house in the al-Jurn area in northern Gaza, and another five were killed yesterday when a home was hit in central Gaza.

Bombing continued in several areas of the Strip on Friday morning, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

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The deal is in three stages. The first six-week phase of the deal would see 33 hostages - including women, children and elderly people - exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Israeli forces will also withdraw to the east away from densely populated areas of Gaza, displaced Palestinians will be allowed to begin returning to their homes and hundreds of aid lorries will be allowed into the territory each day.

Negotiations for the second phase - which should see the remaining hostages released, a full Israeli troop withdrawal and a return to "sustainable calm" - would start on the 16th day.

The third and final stage would involve the return of any remaining hostages' bodies and the reconstruction of Gaza - something which could take years.

• More: What we know about the Gaza ceasefire deal

A majority of Israeli ministers are expected to back the deal - but some far-right politicians are threatening to quit over it, including Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Another politician, Ohad Tal, who chairs the far-right Religious Zionist party in the Israeli parliament, also strongly opposes the deal and last night told the BBC he and his colleagues were considering whether to quit Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government.

"We want to make sure that the implication will be that we are returning to fight Hamas, and we have a plan on how to finish the job, how to make sure Hamas will be eliminated", says Tal.

He adds that he and his colleagues will stay in government if they can get some of these guarantees but there wouldn't be any point in staying if they didn't.

Jeremy Bowen
International Editor, reporting from Jerusalem

Donald Trump has made an impact on the Middle East even before he sits down in the Oval Office to start his second term as president.

He cut through the delaying tactics Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in alliance with his ultranationalist coalition partners, had used to avoid accepting the ceasefire deal Joe Biden put on the table last May.

US pressure on Hamas and other Palestinian groups is a given. Under Biden, pressure on Israel was the lever that was never pulled. Trump starts his second term claiming credit, with reasonable justification, for getting the ceasefire deal in Gaza over the line. He can bask in some glory.

Netanyahu, on the other hand, is dealing with a coalition crisis. The entire principle of doing a deal with Hamas is repugnant to the ultranationalist politicians who have supported his government. One of them, the national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says his party, Jewish Power will only support the government if it resumes the war, cuts off all aid to Gaza and destroys Hamas. If that does not happen he will resign.

That will be of no importance to Donald Trump. The push for a Gaza ceasefire demonstrated that Trump would put the interests of his presidency before the political requirements of Israel's prime minister.

• Read in full: Israel has changed since Donald Trump's last term – has he?

When mediators Qatar and US first announced the deal, they said the agreement would come into effect on Sunday, pending Israeli cabinet approval.

But after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed a security cabinet vote from yesterday to today, accusing Hamas of trying to "extort last minute concessions", there are reports the first hostages may not be freed until Monday.

There is still time on Friday for the security cabinet to approve the agreement before the Sabbath - the Jewish day of rest - begins.

And there is also a religious exemption for working on the Sabbath if saving a life, which signing off on the ceasefire could be considered to meet. But as for now it is unclear when the deal will come into force.

Israel's PM has confirmed a deal has been reached to release the hostages, following months of negotiations.

In a statement released overnight, his office says: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been updated by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a deal for the release of the hostages.

"The prime minister has directed that the security cabinet be convened later today (Friday). The government will be convened later in order to approve the deal."

As a reminder, Israel's security cabinet is a smaller inner group of ministers within the larger government cabinet.

The statement adds that the hostages' families have been updated and preparations have started for the hostages to return to Israel.

Jon Donnison
Reporting from Jerusalem

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After a last-minute delay, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli negotiating team have confirmed that the deal has been finalised.

The country’s security cabinet and then the government will now need to meet to ratify the agreement.

Two hardline right-wing ministers, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who both oppose the deal say they will resign in protest.

But they've signalled they will not join the opposition - to bring the government down - yet, so long as the war resumes in six weeks' time, when phase one of the ceasefire and hostage release deal ends.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he expects the ceasefire to start on Sunday as planned with the release of the first three Israeli hostages.

The civil defence agency in Gaza said at least 80 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since the deal was first announced, with Israel’s military saying it had hit more than 50 targets across the territory.