CAIRO, November 23. /TASS/. Egypt, Qatar and the United States are guarantors of humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, which will come into force on November 24, Basem Naim, a member of the leadership of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas has said.

"Qatar, Egypt and the US are acting as guarantors of humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip," the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera quotes him as saying. "The humanitarian truce is an important step towards easing the sufferings of the Palestinian people," Naim stressed. "Mediators and some international parties have promised to deliver more than 200 truckloads of aid [per day] to Gaza during the truce," he added.

Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari said that the humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip would begin on Friday, at 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. GMT). The Palestinian radical movement confirmed this.

On November 22, Hamas reported reaching an agreement with Israel, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, on a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip that would last four days. The movement confirmed that the agreement stipulated the release of 50 women and children under the age of 19 who are held in Gaza in exchange for the release of 150 women and children under the age of 19 from Israeli prisons.