Washington is hopeful that an agreement could be reached at the end of the negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza war in Cairo. Washington does not want to commit to a time frame.
The US government sees chances for an agreement in the talks in Cairo on a ceasefire in the Gaza war. There are still points in the negotiations where Israel and the Islamist Hamas are far apart, said John Kirby, communications director of the National Security Council in the White House. “But we wouldn’t have sent a team there if we didn’t believe we had a chance here,” he said.
Attempts are now being made to bridge the differences – CIA Director Bill Burns, among others, has travelled to Cairo for this purpose. Kirby did not want to comment on a possible timeframe for the conclusion of the talks.
The indirect talks, which have been going on for months and are being mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the USA, aim at a ceasefire in the Gaza war and an exchange of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The mediators are currently trying to find wording to bridge the existing gap on contentious issues. According to media reports, an Israeli negotiating delegation has travelled to Cairo for indirect talks with the Islamist Hamas.
The Gaza war was triggered by the unprecedented massacre that Hamas and other extremist groups committed in southern Israel on October 7 of the previous year. The terrorists killed 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250 as hostages in the Gaza Strip. Israel suspects that there are still around 120 kidnapping victims in the sealed-off coastal area, but many of them are probably no longer alive.
Source: Stern
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