Location at an overview: New efforts to do ceasefire in the Gaza War

While Israel’s military is preparing for taking the city of Gaza, according to media reports, agents are committed to the end of the war. In addition to the United States, Qatar and Egypt also tried intensively to resume indirect discussions between Israel and Islamist terrorist organization Hamas, reported Israeli media. The US businessman Bishara Bahbah, who has been involved in contacts between the USA and Hamas in the past few months, called on both warring parties to immediately return to the negotiating table.

An expansion of the war will only increase the number of fatalities in the Gaza Strip and endanger the life of hostages in the violence of Hamas, Bahbah said in an interview with the “Jerusalem Post”. He is considered the confidant of US President Donald Trump. “Israel is in a situation in which it doesn’t want to be,” Bahbah told the newspaper. “The Israeli public does not want to see that Israeli soldiers are killed in the Gaza Strip. And the location for the Palestinians is unsustainable.”

Trump: remember October 7th

According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s new war plan also shows in addition to taking the city of Gaza in the central refugee camps of the Gaza Strip. “In view of the refusal of Hamas to put down her weapons, Israel has no choice but to finish the job and to complete the defeat of Hamas,” Netanyahu said on Sunday foreign journalists. This is “the best way to end the war – and the best way to end it quickly”.

According to the US news portal “Axios”, US President Trump said that he does not believe that Hamas “will release the hostages in the current situation”. In a short telephone interview with “Axios”, Trump did not want to comment on whether he supported Israel’s planned expansion of the war. However, Trump seems to agree Netanyahu’s argument that more military pressure on Hamas is necessary, writes “Axios”.

In allusion to the Hamas massacre and other terrorist groups on October 7, 2023 in Israel, Trump told the portal: “Remember 7th October, remember October 7th”. Around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were dragged to Gaza as hostages. It was the trigger of the war. Since then, according to the health authority in Gaza controlled by the Hamas, more than 61,000 people have been killed. The barely verifiable number does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Reports: Netanyahu not available for a partial agreement

According to Israeli media reports, Netanyahu is only ready for negotiations on an agreement if it contains the release of all the hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip and ends the war on the Israeli conditions. This includes that Hamas puts the weapons down. According to “Axios”, Qatar and the United States are working on a new proposal for such a comprehensive agreement on the release of hostages and a termination of the war. For this purpose, the US specialist Steve Witkoff recently met with Qatar’s head of government Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani.

However, the US businessman Bahbah warned in an interview with the Israeli television station I24 News that negotiations on a comprehensive agreement could take months. Bahbah was cited to expect progress during the ongoing fights during the ongoing fights. Instead, he advocates a 60-day ceasefire. “This would save lives, maintain the hostages from further danger and create the prerequisites for real progress,” the broadcaster quoted. A proposal for such a 60-day ceasefire was already on the table, but indirect negotiations were recently in the dead end.

EU condemns the killing of al-Jasira journalist

Meanwhile, the EU condemned the killing of the correspondent of the Arab television station al-Jasira and four other employees by the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. The EU foreign representative Kaja Kallas also announced that the Israeli accusation was noted that the group was Hamas terrorists. “But in such cases, clear evidence must be presented in the sense of the rule of law,” said the Estin. According to the Arab broadcaster, Israel’s military had killed the correspondent Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues on a targeted air raid for a tent for journalists in the city of Gaza.

Israel’s military confirmed the death of Al-Sharif. The 28-year-old had pretended to be Al-Jasira journalist, but led a terrorist cell of the Islamist Hamas. According to the organization reporter without borders, a freelance journalist was also killed, the number of the dead is six. After a video conference of the EU Foreign Minister, Kallas also penetrated more support for the needy people in the sealed off Gaza Strip. There would be more relief supplies, but the need is much greater. “We urgently ask Israel to allow more trucks and enable better distribution of help.”