Hamas: ceasefire negotiations in Gaza are in the final phase

According to a source from the Palestinian group, the Israeli delegation still needs to arrive to approve the agreement. USA had already announced the same.

Negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is in its “final phase”awaiting the arrival of the Israeli delegation to approve the agreement, reports EFE.

According to the Spanish news agency EFE, which cites a source from the Palestinian group Hamas, the mediators are awaiting the arrival in Doha of an Israeli delegationpossibly headed by Mossad leader David Barnea, for “his approval of the final amendments” to the text of the agreement.

This week, the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, who is “very close” an agreement on a truce in the Gaza Strip.

The latest project stipulates, in a first phase, the total withdrawal of Israeli troops of the Philadelphia Corridor – the border between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, in Egypt – as well as the “partial” withdrawal from different points of the Palestinian enclave.

During this period, Israeli forces will be allowed to maintain “checkpoints” in Gaza, while on the last day of the third phase, occupation forces must carry out “a total withdrawal” from the enclave.

This EFE source did not go into detail about the proposal and said that the vast majority of disagreements about the exchange of hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons had been resolved, although warning that there are “discrepancies” on some points and on the wording of the agreement itself.

These developments come after weeks of impasse in negotiations and following a visit to Doha on Friday by Steve Witkoff, US President-elect Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, who discussed with Qatari officials progress in truce talks.

According to a statement from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Witkoff met with the Arab country’s head of diplomacy, Mohammed bin Abderrahman.

Trump, who will take office on January 20, has insisted that he wants to end the wars in which the United States is involved, such as the one in Gaza, and has threatened Hamas to turn the Strip into “hell on earth” if it does not release hostages until that date.