The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamás announced Friday night that He is ready to “start immediately” negotiations on the last proposal of truce in Gaza, While the US presidentDonald TrumpHe said that “there could be” an agreement next week.
Despite the mediation maneuvers carried out by the United States, Egypt and Qatar, The Israeli offensive continues on the strip, where rescue teams reported 52 dead on Friday.
Hamas, in power in this territory, said in a statement that he had delivered “his response to the mediators and is positive.”
“The movement is ready to start immediately and seriously a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism of application of that frame,” he added.
Hamas’s announcement occurs before the trip that will make Washington the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to meet with Trump, who on Friday was optimistic about an eventual agreement of Alto El Fuego.
On board the Air Force One, the Republican estimated that “there could be an agreement on Gaza next week.” But it is a situation that “changes day by day,” he admitted.
According to a Palestinian source close to discussions, the proposal “includes a 60 -day truce” during which Hamas would release half of the still alive Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners stopped by Israel.
The Islamic Yihad Group, the main Palestinian movement of Hamás against Israel in the War in Gaza, said it supports the negotiations and requested “supplementary guarantees” on the application of the proposal.
Dozens of dead in Gaza
Diplomatic maneuvers do not stop hostilities in the small Palestinian territory, facing a serious humanitarian crisis and almost its population displaced by war.
The Israeli army continued his offensive on Friday, which, according to the Gaza Civil Defense Agency, left 52 dead during the day, among them eleven near humanitarian aid distribution sites.
As the UN said Friday, 613 people died in aid distributs at the strip since the end of May509 of them near the facilities of the controversial Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza (GHF).
This organization backed by the United States and Israel began to distribute food in this territory on May 26, after more than two months of Israeli blockade at the entrance of all humanitarian aid.
The distributions of the GHF gave rise to chaotic scenes, with the Israeli army shooting several times in an attempt to contain hundreds of desperate Palestinians.
The UN and the main aid organizations have refused to work with the GHF, claiming that it serves Israeli military objectives and violates basic humanitarian principles. This denies “close” incidents of its facilities.
In the Naser Hospital in Jan Yunis, in southern Gaza, several women cried next to the body of a 19 -year -old who died near a distribution point of this foundation.
“My son went to look for flour. They tell us ‘come and look for help’, come on and shoot us from above,” said his mother Nidaa to the Farra.
The restrictions on the press in Gaza and the difficulties in accessing numerous points prevents the AFP from independently verifying the balance sheets communicated by the civil defense or their circumstances.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army said that attacks could not comment without precise coordinates, but claimed to be “operating to dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities.”
Israel recently expanded its military operations in the Gaza Strip. This week, Netanyahu said he wanted to eliminate “from the root” to Hamas, but also pointed out that his priority was the return of “all” the hostages.
The war in the Gaza Strip between the Israeli army and Hamas was triggered by the unprecedented attack of that Palestinian Islamist movement in southern Israel, on October 7, 2023.
That attack resulted in the death of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to a balance of the AFP based on official Israeli data.
At least 57,268 Palestinians have died in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, especially civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of this territory, statistics that the UN considers reliable.
