Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday that a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip will take effect at 08:30 (06:30 GMT) on Sunday morning.

Ministry spokesman Majid al-Ansari said on the Xbox platform: “Based on the agreement between the parties to the agreement and the mediators, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at 8:30 a.m. local time in Gaza on Sunday morning.

The ministry recommended ‘taking precautions, exercising maximum caution and waiting for instructions from official sources’.