“The terrorist organization Hamas did not fulfill its part of the agreement, which included the release of all children and women,” they said from the Israeli premier’s office.
Israel announced this Saturday the withdrawal of its team of negotiators that was discussing in Qatar the possibility of reactivating the truce with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, stating that the talks are currently going through a “deadlock” over the circumstances of new exchanges between hostages. and prisoners.
“Due to the blockage in the talks and on instructions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad head David Barnea has ordered his Doha team to return to Israel,” the premier’s office announced. Israeli in a statement cited by the Europa Press news agency.
“The terrorist organization Hamas did not fulfill its part of the agreement, which included the release of all children and women, based on a list delivered to Hamas and approved” by that group, the statement added.
Israel and Hamas resumed fighting yesterday after the expiration of the one-week truce, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, with accusations exchanged between the parties for the resumption of hostilities and requests from the international community for a new humanitarian cessation.
This escalation of hostilities began on October 7, when Hamas militiamen burst into Israel, in a surprise attack that left more than 1,200 dead, mostly civilians, and 240 kidnapped, including twenty Argentines.
In response, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas and unleashed a campaign of air and ground attacks on Gaza that the enclave’s government said left more than 15,000 people dead, most of them civilians.
The one-week temporary cessation of hostilities allowed hostages to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners: 110 hostages were released since the beginning of the conflict, 105 of them during the truce, mostly Israeli women and minors, and a dozen of them Argentineans, and in exchange Israel He released 240 people.
Source: Ambito
