The new agreement they are trying to reach to stop the fire. There would be an exchange of hostages and humanitarian aid.
Israeli officials traveled to Qatar on Mondaywhere the ruling emir met separately with the head of the Palestinian group Hamasat a time when both sides of the war in Gaza They are approaching ceasefire agreements and for the potential handover of hostages.
The presence of the two parties in the so-called proximity talks – meeting the mediators separately while they are in the same city – suggests that negotiations are further along than at any time since the big push in early February, when Israel rejected a counteroffer from Hamas to declare a four-and-a-half-month truce.
An agreement that seems to have no end between Israel and Hamas
In public, Both sides continued to take widely divergent positions on the ultimate goals of a truce, while blaming each other for delaying the talks. Israel says it will accept only a temporary pause in fighting to ensure the release of hostages. Hamas says it will not release them without an agreement that leads to a permanent end to the war.
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After meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said that His group embraced mediators’ efforts to find an end to the war and accused Israel of dragging its feet. as Gazans die under siege.
“We will not allow the enemy to use negotiations as a cover for this crime”he claimed.
The statement from the Prime Minister of Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahusaid his country is ready for an agreement and that it is now up to Hamas to abandon demands that he described as “extravagant” and “from another planet.” “Obviously, we want this agreement if we can get it. It’s up to Hamas. Now it’s really their decision,” he told the US network. Fox News In an interview. “They have to come back to reality.”
The emir’s office said Al Thani and the Hamas chief discussed Qatar’s efforts to negotiate an “immediate and permanent ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.” Previously, a source told Reuters that an Israeli working delegation, made up of personnel from the Army and the Mossad spy agency, had flown to Qatar, with the task of creating an operational center to support negotiations there.
Its mission would include examine proposed Palestinian militants Hamas wants to free as part of hostage dealsaid the source. Israel continues to maintain publicly that it will not end the war until Hamas is eradicated, while the Palestinian group says it will not release the hostages without an agreement on ending the war.
Source: Ambito
