Israel’s cabinet approved a deal that will see Hamas free all remaining hostages held in Gaza in exchange for around 2,000 prisoners, a major step toward ending a two-year war that’s killed tens of thousands of people and destabilized the wider Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition gave its approval overnight, around a day after negotiators for the warring sides reached an agreement in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.

The identities of the Palestinian prisoners to be freed in the swap are still being finalized. Marwan Barghouti, one of the more high-profile candidates who has been touted as a potential leader of a Palestinian state some day, is not expected to be among them, reported. He’s been imprisoned by Israel for more than two decades.

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