This is where we will leave our live coverage of the political efforts in Israel right now surrounding the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal.

• The Israeli security cabinet has backed the deal's approval, with the full cabinet yet to sign off.
• The full cabinet's meeting is seen as a box-ticking measure highly likely to follow the security cabinet's recommendation.
• The deal is expected to come into effect on Sunday, with 33 hostages and about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in its first stage.
• More negotiations would be needed for the ceasefire plan to reach its next stages.

We will have the next update for you in a separate story shortly.

A World Health Organization official says it should be possible to scale up aid imports into Gaza to about 600 trucks a day under the terms of a ceasefire deal.

"I think the possibility is very much there and specifically when other crossings will be opened up," Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told a Geneva press briefing earlier.

The WHO plans to bring in an unspecified number of prefabricated hospitals to support Gaza's decimated health sector, he added.

Peeperkorn said he expected the ceasefire to allow for more medical evacuations for the over 12,000 patients currently on the waiting list, of whom around a third are children.

About half of the patients have injuries from the 15-month war such as amputated limbs and spinal injuries, he said.

"We hope now with the ceasefire process that this will be better facilitated and supported," he said.

The Israeli security cabinet has backed the deal's approval, with the full cabinet yet to finally tick it off.

The EU is prepared to redeploy a monitoring mission to the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after a ceasefire deal to end Israel's war in the territory, the bloc's top diplomat says.

"We are ready to do it," foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told journalists after meeting Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa in Brussels earlier.

Kallas said the EU needed an invitation from the Palestinian and Israeli sides and agreement from Egypt before it could "go forward".

The comments came as Israel's security cabinet have backed a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that should take effect this weekend.

Kallas called the ceasefire deal a "positive breakthrough", but warned that the road ahead was fraught with potential peril.

"It is still too soon to say whether the war is truly over and we know that there is risk in every step here," she said.

"The European Union will continue to work closely with our partners to deliver humanitarian support."

Kallas said that in the longer term the EU was working on a new "multi-year support programme for the Palestinian Authority" and was "ready to assist" in rebuilding Gaza.

Gaza's health ministry says at least 88 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory in the previous 24 hours, after the Israeli security council backed the approval of a ceasefire deal.

It takes the overall war death toll to 46,876.

The ministry said said that at least 110,642 people have been wounded in the over 15-month-long war.

British politicians warn an Israeli ban on the UN's Palestinian refugee agency due to be implemented this month threatens to undermine efforts for peace in the Middle East, as the full cabinet is expected to sign off on a ceasefire and hostages deal imminently.

The chair of the UK parliament's International Development Committee called earlier for Israel to reverse the proposed UNRWA ban.

"While news of a ceasefire is encouraging, the situation on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank remains alarming," said Sarah Champion, from the ruling Labour party.

"Israel's proposed ban on UNRWA would prevent aid distribution in Gaza, devastate Palestinian livelihoods and send disruptive ripples throughout the Middle East."

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who previously vowed to quit if the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal was approved, is "terrified" now that the Israeli security council has backed its approval.

"If until yesterday I was terrified of this deal, then today, when more and more details are revealed, when it is revealed that terrorists serving life sentences are being released to Jerusalem, terrorists serving life sentences are being released to Judea and Samaria, when everyone knows that these terrorists will try to harm again, will try to kill again, I am even more terrified," he wrote on X.

"I call on my friends in the Likud and in religious Zionism, it is not yet too late, we are before a government meeting, we can stop this deal, join me, we can stop it."

Israeli President Isaac Herzoc says he welcomes the security cabinet's decision to back the ceasefire deal's approval.

"I expect the government to follow suit in swiftly affirming this decision," he wrote on X after the news broke.

A full cabinet meeting is expected to begin shortly.

The full Israeli cabinet is expected to meet in 10 minutes, at 3:30pm local time, to finally sign off on the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal.

It comes after the Israeli security council backed the deal's approval.

Reporting with Reuters

The Israeli security council has officially approved the Gaza ceasefire deal, a statement from the prime minister's office seen by the ABC has revealed.

"After examining all political, security and humanitarian aspects; and with the understanding that the proposed deal supports the achievement of the war's goals, the Ministerial Committee for National Security Affairs (Political-Security Cabinet) recommended that the government approve the proposed outline," the statement read.

The last hurdle, a government meeting expected to tick it off, will be convened later today.

Mediators from Egypt, Qatar, the United States and Israel met in Cairo earlier to set out "mechanisms" for implementing the ceasefire in Gaza, state-linked media reported.

Al-Qahera News said technical meetings started in Cairo "to put mechanisms for implementing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza with the participation of Egyptian, Qatari, US and Israeli teams" ahead of expected implementation of the deal on Sunday.

The Israeli security cabinet are currently meeting to approve the ceasefire deal.