The following is the text of the hostage-ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas on January 15, 2025. Several additional appendixes that include maps and other details outlining the parameters of the deal were not included in copy of the text obtained by The Times of Israel, whose authenticity was confirmed by an Arab diplomat familiar with the negotiations.

The text below, entitled Appendix I, supplements the Israeli proposal for a deal with Hamas, which was submitted on May 27, 2024, and was publicly presented by US President Joe Biden on May 31, 2024. That proposal sets out a three-phase agreement “on the exchange of hostages and prisoners and restoring a sustainable calm,” and provides for the release of 33 Israeli hostages in the first phase. In his announcement of the deal on January 15, 2025, Biden specified: “This is the exact framework of the deal I proposed back in May.”

Appendix I

Practical procedures and mechanisms to implement the agreement for the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian Prisoners and the return to a sustainable calm which would achieve a permanent ceasefire between the two sides

1. Stage two preparations:

2. Israeli forces withdrawal:

3. Prisoner Exchange:

4. Philadelphi corridor:

5. Rafah Border Crossing:

6. Exit of ill and wounded civilians:

7. Return of unarmed internally displaced (Netzarim Corridor):

8. Humanitarian aid protocol: