The latest round of negotiations on the renewal of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages ended in Cairo without an apparent breakthroughThey said on Monday by Palestinian and Egyptian sources to which Reuters appealed. According to them, the militant Hamas movement took its position that the agreement must lead to the end of the war in Gaza. However, Israel makes the end of the fighting on the complete destruction of Hamas, TASR reports.
During the ceasefire, which came into force on January 19 after more than 15 months of the war, Hamas released 33 hostages in exchange for approximately 1800 imprisoned Palestinians. However, Israel, on March 18, resumed the fighting in the Palestinian enclave and declared that the attacks will continue, Until the remaining hostages are dismissed. In the Gaza Strip is still located 58 Israeli hostages, of which 34 are the dead of the Israeli army.
Sources of Cairo’s negotiations said that Hamas Movement, despite fundamental disagreement with Israel, in case of ending the war, indicated that it is willing to make some concessions in the questionhow many hostages could be dismissed in the event of an extension of the ceasefire by replacing the Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
The latest proposal, according to the Egyptian representative, expects Hamas to release a higher number of hostages. Israeli Minister Ze’ev Elkin said on Monday that Israel is trying to release approximately ten hostages. Hamas had previously agreed with five and is now asking for more time to react to the last proposal.
“Hamas has no problem, but he wants guarantees that Israel will agree to start talks on the second phase of the ceasefire agreement”, which will lead to the end of the war, said the Egyptian source.
In the meantime, AFP, referring to Egyptian state media, reported that Egypt had received from Israel a proposal for a temporary ceasefire, that would prepare land for negotiations on permanent stopping of enemy shares. Now, according to unnamed sources of the Al-Káhira news station, Hamas is waiting for a response.
The leaders of Qatar and Egypt, the countries that, together with the US intermedia for negotiations between Israel and Hamas, met on Sunday in Doha. Egyptian President Abdal Fatáh Sisí, according to an unnamed source, called for additional international guarantees of the ceasefire agreement, Except for those provided by Egypt and Qatar.
The war in the Gaza Strip triggered an attack by Palestinian militants in the south of Israel of October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people and kidnaping another 251 as hostages to the coastal enclave.
Israeli retaliatory reaction, Including bombing and ground operations, leveled with the ground a large part of the Gaza Strip, It expelled about 90 percent of the local population and caused a humanitarian crisis and death of more than 50,900 Palestinians.
