Exiled Hamas Gaza chief Khalil Al-Hayya said that Hamas has received guarantees from the United States, Arab mediators, and Turkey that the war in Gaza has permanently ended.
According to the official Hamas telegram channel, Al-Hayya stated that the Hamas delegation arrived at negotiations in Egypt "armed with responsibility and positivity" before finalizing the details of the first stage of implementation.
In the telegram statement, he praised the "honor of the heroic deeds" carried out by Hamas members as they "waged a war the likes of which the world has never seen before."
Al-Hayya also said that the agreement will see the release by Israel of all jailed Palestinian women and children, as well as the opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions.
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al-Jazeera on Thursday that no Palestinian accepts disarming, and Palestinians were in need of weapons and resistance.
Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal
This comes after US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal in Gaza.
The plan was signed at noon in Egypt, and will come into effect after the Israeli government ratifies it in a vote set for Thursday.
Twenty living hostages are expected to be released within 72 hours of the deal entering effect. Additionally, Arab reports indicated that Hamas had begun collecting the remains of deceased hostages to return to Israel.
In the immediate wake of the announcement of the deal, the IDF began preparing to shift its deployment lines in the Palestinian enclave after The Jerusalem Post previously reported Israel had reached a full agreement on the maps detailing the military's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.