Israel’s first serious movement. A few hours after the end of Alto El Fuego in Gaza, the Benjamin Netanyahu government is shown by the work of expanding the first phase of the arrest of the war conflict for another 42 days.
Specifically, the Israeli delegation proposed this Friday at a meeting with the mediators, Egypt, Catar and the United States, in Cairo Extend the first phase of the truce in Gaza for 42 days to recover at 63 hostages that still remain in the Palestinian enclaveHe told Efe an Egyptian source close to conversations.
The first phase of Alto El Fuego, which entered into force on January 19 with the support of the United States and the help of Egyptian mediators and Qatari, will end on Saturday and it is not yet clear what will happen later.
Israel submitted this proposal while postponing the agreement on the future of the Gaza Strip, for which the US president, Donald Trump, proposed to expel the Palestinian population and create a kind of “Riviera de Oriente Middle” as it recreated yesterday in a video generated by artificial intelligence, where the destroyed territory became a maritime spa full of skyscrapers, tourists
The informant, who requested anonymity for the sensitivity of the negotiations, said that “there is no specific agreement in this regard, but it could be possible.” “We have not closed the option to continue the high the current fire,” he added.
The Egyptian security official added that the representative delegations of Israel and Hamas did not participate directly in the negotiations to close an agreement on the second phase of the high fire, and that they must still “overcome the wide gaps between the two parties.”
“The second phase requires a deep discussion. It will take some time,” he said about this process. In this regard, he specified that conversations about the second phase have not yet begun, which could lead to a permanent cessation of war.
He added that Israel seeks to extend the first phase with the condition that Hamas releases three hostages every week in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, although it did not specify how many Palestinian prisoners would release in return.
“Neither Hamas nor Israel have approached what could happen after Saturday if the first phase of the high fire ends without an agreement. The negotiations between both parties are carried out with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States,” he added.
In the first phase, 33 Israeli hostages were delivered in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase aims to free the remaining hostages and achieve the complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces of Gaza.
Hamas asks Israel for “pressure”
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has reiterated on Friday its call to the international community to “press” Israel for the “immediate” beginning of the second phase of conversations about the high fire in the Gaza Strip, in force since January 19.
“We ask the international community to press to the Zionist Occupation that fully fulfill its role in the agreement and that I immediately in the second phase (of conversations), without a doubt or evasions,” said the Palestinian Islamist group.
Thus, he stressed that “with the end of the first phase of Alto El Fuego and the Prison Exchange Agreement”, the group “reaffirms its total commitment to applying all the clauses of the agreement at all its stages and details”, as collected by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filaastin’.
After that, Taher al Nunu, a high position of the group, has argued that “the alteration of the second phase of the agreement in Gaza by the occupation does not allow an extension of the first phase”, in the midst that Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, put this option on the table.
