{"id":30744,"date":"2025-01-17T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/israeli-security-cabinet-meets-to-vote-on-ceasefire-deal-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:25:13","slug":"israeli-security-cabinet-meets-to-vote-on-ceasefire-deal-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/israeli-security-cabinet-meets-to-vote-on-ceasefire-deal-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli security cabinet meets to vote on ceasefire deal | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office has said the release of hostages will begin on Sunday if the deal passes. Plus, test flight by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX ends in failure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/17\/israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-gaza-live-blog-updates-netanyahu-hostages?page=with:block-678a29018f0800365d4fa0ad#block-678a29018f0800365d4fa0ad\">release of hostages seized by Hamas<\/a> in its 7 October 2023 attack on Israel is expected to begin on Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office has said, provided the security cabinet passes the deal. At time of writing, the cabinet\u2019s meeting \u2013 where it will discuss and vote on the deal \u2013 was underway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Has the fighting continued?<\/strong> Yes. Israeli strikes have continued, with Palestinian authorities said late on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-gaza-war-netanyahu-updates\">that at least 86 people had been killed<\/a> in the day after the truce was announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Has the death toll risen?<\/strong> Yes, to 27 \u2013 and is expected to continue doing so. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/16\/california-la-wildfires-updates?page=with:block-67899caa8f0816d5f0fa1199#block-67899caa8f0816d5f0fa1199\">38 people are still missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How close are we to containment now?<\/strong> The Palisades fire is still only 22% contained after burning more than 23,700 acres, while the Eaton fire is at 55% after torching some 14,100 acres. But this is expected to improve in coming days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/17\/first-thing-israeli-security-cabinet-meets-gaza-ceasefire-deal-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office has said the release of hostages will begin on Sunday if the deal passes. Plus, test flight by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX ends in failure Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The release of hostages seized by Hamas in its 7 October 2023 attack on Israel &#8230; <a title=\"Israeli security cabinet meets to vote on ceasefire deal | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/israeli-security-cabinet-meets-to-vote-on-ceasefire-deal-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Israeli security cabinet meets to vote on ceasefire deal | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}