“Today, once the ceasefire is officially announced and applied in Gaza, life will start again despite the difficulty, the loss of the martyrs, the loved ones, the friends, the relatives, the injured,” he told MEE. “We lost our friends, our loved ones. My brother lost his legs, and my daughter, a young girl, was hit in the eye.”

After months of on-off negotiations conducted by Egyptian and Qatari mediators, there is hope that the remaining details of the ceasefire deal will be resolved within hours and could go into effect on Jan.

WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST,” President-elect Donald Trump wrote on social media. “THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!”