Location at an overview: Israel initially leads weapons resting talks on the indoor flame

Relatives of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip accuse Israel of the government not to determine the next round of the ceasefire talks with the Hamas. They criticize the limited mandate of the Israeli delegation, which was sent to Qatar for the negotiations and warn of the Gaza War.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the negotiators to only negotiate “technical details” for the time being, reported Israeli media, citing high government officials. The delegation is therefore less top-class than in earlier rounds: it would not belong to the bosses of the foreign and domestic intelligence agency, which were mostly sent to Doha, but this time only higher civil servants and the Israeli hostage coordinator, the retired General Gal Hirsch.

The indirect conversations in Doha, in which Qatar, Egypt and the United States convey, are said to be about the second phase of the ceasefire, which should begin at the end of the month. This should lead to a final end of the war and the release of the remaining hostages that are still alive. Critics accuse Netanyahu of delaying this in this regard from considering political rights in Israel. Hardliners require not to meet Hamas’ demands and instead to completely destroy the Palestinian terrorist organization.

Netanyahu: “We will eliminate Hamas”

“We will do everything we can to bring our hostages home,” Netanyahu promised in a video message. “We will eliminate Hamas and we will bring our hostages home.” The cabinet will meet on Sunday to discuss the second phase of the but fragile ceasefire that has been in force since January 19. A disappearance of the Hamas from Gaza, where she had torn power in 2007, is hardly imaginable under the current conditions of the ceasefire agreement.

A member of the Hamas Politburos called Bassem Naim told the Arabic broadcaster Al-Jasira that the Islamist organization was ready to clear all the hurdles for the implementation of the agreement. However, Israel turns “dirty tricks” and thus undermined the agreement. The fact that aid deliveries are delayed and Palestinians are still killed in the Gaza Strip endanger the laboriously negotiated deal.

Another partial withdrawal of the military

A further partial agreement was fulfilled with the release of three Israeli Hamas-Geiseln and 183 Palestinian prisons from Israeli prisons. In a next step, the Israeli military should withdraw from the so-called Nezarim corridor on Sunday night, which divides the sealed Gaza Strip into a northern and a southern half. In a third phase of the ceasefire, the corpses of killed hostages are to be attributed and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip begins.

After the ceasefire began, Israel had already withdrawn from part of the strategically significant Nezarim corridor. Now – apart from an area of ​​one kilometer wide directly on the border with Israel, it should completely clear it. In this way, Palestinians, who were driven out of the cities of the north to the south as a result of the war, could return to even larger numbers than previously destroyed residential locations. There was no confirmation of a withdrawal of the military at night.

The release of the three hostages on Saturday again made it clear how dramatic the lot of the kidnapped, who have been in Hamas’ violence for more than a year and do not know whether and when they will see their families again. Ohad Ben Ami (56), Or Levy (34) and Eli Scharabi (52) appeared hostage after 16 months: weakened, pale and emaciated.

Hardly recognized the father

Ben Ami’s daughter said that she had hardly recognized her father. She just wanted to hug him, said Ella Ben Ami. “This is what a crime against humanity looks like,” said Israeli President Isaac Duke in view of the condition of the hostages. Palestinian terrorists had and around 250 others dragged from Israel to the Gaza Strip during the massacre on October 7, 2023.

Since the beginning of the ceasefire, Hamas has now released 16 out of 33 Israeli hostages, which are to be released during the first phase of the three -stage agreement. A total of 76 hostages are now still being recorded in the Gaza Strip, with 35 of them according to Israeli information dead. The next hostages are scheduled to come free next weekend.

The forum of the hostage -membered Netanyahu’s government accused of wasting valuable time: “How is it that the cabinet did not immediately meet after the shocking pictures of Eli, Ohad and OR? What evidence does the decision -makers need to be the critical urgency of the Get the release of the 76 hostages? “, It said in a statement.

Air strikes in Lebanon and Syria

Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force bombed military destinations in Lebanon and Syria. The Lebanese news agency NNA reported that six people were killed and two were injured in a drone attack on a drone attack on a drone attack on a base of the Hezbollah militia in the Lebanese Bekaa level. The Israeli military confirmed an air raid on Hisbollah fighter in a weapon factory. With their activities against the ceasefire agreement achieved at the end of November between Israel and the Hisbollah.

Near the Syrian capital Damascus, the Air Force bombed an arms camp of Hamas. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London, which pursues the situation in Syria with a network of activists, confirmed the attack on the depot in Deir Ali, 25 kilometers south of Damascus. There were no injuries.

Israel has significantly expanded its attacks on alleged arms camps and replenishment routes from Hamas and the Hisbollah militia with it since December 8th. That day, rebels had overthrew the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. He then fled to Moscow. Hisbollah and Hamas were allied with the Assad leadership.