While the Situation in the Middle East Within the frame of the high fire that put a brake on fighting during the last six weeks, Israel announced this Sunday that it will suspend the entry of Humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Given this situation, Hamas requested the intervention of mediators of Egypt and Qatar.
The Islamist group reacted and tried to break the ceasefire agreement after the first phase ended. He pointed out that the Israel decision was “Cheap extortion, a war crime and a flagrant attack” to understanding.
Although the first part of the truce, which entered into force on January 19 after being negotiated by mediation of Qatar With the help of Egypt and the United States, he finished successfully, the parties failed to agree to carry out the second part of the process.
Israel said he had accepted a proposal presented by the American envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoffwhich proposed an extension of the truce during the Ramadan Muslim party and even Jewish Easter, that is, until mid -April. In addition, it also anticipated during this period The liberation of all hostages still captive in Gaza In two stages, the second of which is conditioned to an agreement of high permanent fire still to negotiate.
Hamas rejected this proposal and demanded that the second phase provided for in the initial truce agreement be applied, estimating that the American commitment is equivalent to Israel “Reniege of the agreements he signed.”
Before the refusal of HamasIsrael replied that it will suspend “any entry of goods and supplies in the Gaza Strip.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that under the existing agreements Israel could resume fighting after the first phase if you consider that the negotiations are ineffective.
Hamas immediately denounced the decision and asked “The mediators and the international community [que] Press Israel to “end their punitive and immoral measures against more than two million people in the Gaza Strip”ravaged after 15 months of war, initiated by the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 against the south of Israel.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty condemned Israel’s decision as “A flagrant and clear violation of humanitarian law” and requested the immediate implementation of the second phase.
The initial agreement of Alto El Fuego, which began to govern on January 19, contemplates three parts of 42 days each. The first stage was close to collapse several times but managed to end successfully with the release of 25 hostages by Hamas and the return of eight bodies, while Israel released 1,800 Palestinian prisoners.
The second phase, for now hypothetical, provides for the release of the hostages that remain in Gaza, in exchange for several hundred Palestinian prisoners, and the definitive end of war. The last stage must focus on the Reconstruction of the Palestinian territory. The initial agreement includes a clause that automatically prolongs the first phase while negotiating the second. Egypt requested the “full implementation” of the agreement, ensuring that “there is no alternative.”
Source: Ambito
