It recalls it the negotiating team in the talks on hostage liberation, sources exclusively on Thursday.
According to these sources, Tel Aviv will fully re -evaluate the negotiating process after weeks of stagnation and without a clear sign of progress, due to Hamas’ reluctance to “retreat from its positions and that Israel considered it impossible to proceed.”
A senior member of the negotiating team, however, told the Israeli form that “we are waiting for Hamas’s response and we will send the delegation back to Qatar whenever needed.”
Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the “freeze” of the negotiations, a few hours after his new message that he wants to exterminate Hamas. The Jerusalem Post wrote that for this reason, Israel has recalled special negotiators from Doha.
An Israeli official, who spoke anonymously to JP, said Hamas demands US guarantees for the complete end of war and “did not respond to the US proposal accepted by Israel and insists on refusing to reach an agreement.”
Last Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister announced that high -ranking members of the negotiating team returned to Israel after a week of “intensive” conversations for hostages in Doha, while some representatives – at work level – remained in the capital of Qatari to “
‘The process has been exhausted’
However, Israeli officials stressed that no progress has been made and there is no indication that Hamas is changing its position and the process is exhausted.
The hostage families’ forum said in a statement that the news of the suspension of their negotiations is causing them “huge pain” and that “we will continue to fight for their return – until the last hostage is home.”
On Monday night, Netanyahu had agreed to extend the delegation to Doha in another day to give the negotiations extra time. “We stay in Doha so as not to offend the United States. It would not seem good if Israel was leaving before Hamas, “a senior Israeli official had then said.
‘All Gaza in Israel’s Control’
On the same day, Israel allowed – for the first time in 11 weeks – on five trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. Netanyahu had appeared, claiming that he had allowed a small amount of food to be transferred to the trapped Palestinian population to ensure that the “good friends” of the Jewish state would continue to support it.
The Israeli prime minister said his country would control the entire Gaza Strip by the end of the current military attack. Speaking about her bearing the code name “Gideon’s tanks”, it was certain that “at the end of this campaign, all the lane territories will be under Israel’s security check”.
