White House confident “that the deal will move forward,” Kirby says

Elbahrain.net When asked about the newly scheduled Saturday cabinet vote to seal the ceasefire deal in Israel, Biden’s national security advisor John Kirby told CNN that the White House is “aware of these issues and are working through them with the Israeli government.”

“We are confident these implementing details can be hammered out and that the deal will move forward this weekend.”

Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on his Thursday evening program, Kirby further said that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal is still “on a good path here to start implementation by the end of the weekend.”

“All the parameters have been agreed to. We’ve ironed out these last bit of details that needed to be flattened out and fixed. We believe we’re on a good path here to start implementation by the end of the weekend. So all systems are go right now,” Kirby told Tapper. “We are seeing nothing that would tell us that this is going to get derailed at this point.”

Israel’s cabinet expects to hold a full vote on the ceasefire-hostage agreement on Saturday, according to an Israeli official.

The smaller security cabinet will still convene Friday to vote on the deal, the official said.

Remember: The cabinet meeting was initially expected to take place on Thursday, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that last-minute hurdles were still being resolved at the negotiating table in Doha.

The prime minister’s office previously indicated that the cabinet would only convene once those issues were resolved.

rael’s defense ministry and military are prepared to provide “emotional support” and “mental health care” to released hostages, the ministry announced Thursday.

Defense Minister Israel Katz and an official from the Israel Defense Forces said that “all Ministry capabilities be made available for implementing the hostage release deal, receiving the returning hostages, and supporting their families.”

The Ministry of Defense will emphasize “close medical and mental health care and support, and will enhance emotional support and guidance for all families” of returning hostages, the statement continued.