The Israeli prime minister is expected to meet today at the White House with the US president, who said yesterday that he hoped to close an agreement “this week” between and to declare a ceasefire and to release free hostages, remaining in the 640s.
Indirect negotiations began last night in Doha with the aim of closing an agreement on the liberation of Israeli hostages and in return for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
“Talks about the mechanisms of implementation” of the possible agreement and the “exchange” of Israeli hostages in Gaza with Palestinian prisoners in Israel, said a Palestinian source aware of what was dismantled, clarifying that the negotiations were conducted.
However, the first round of indirect negotiations in the capital of the Emirates of Qatar was fruitless, two Palestinian sources of the Reuters news agency reported, adding that the Israeli delegation has no mandate allowing to close an agreement.
Donald Trump, however, estimated yesterday that there were “good chances” of closing an agreement.
“We have already taken many hostages, but as far as the remaining hostages are concerned, there will be a good number. We think it will happen this week, “the Republican told reporters.
Before leaving for the US, Prime Minister Netanyahu ruled that his meeting with President Trump could “contribute to promoting the outcome we all hope”.
Trump is pushing
The Republican, immersed in a devastating humanitarian situation after 21 months of war.
Benjamin Netanyahu also said that he gave his negotiators “clear instructions”: to reach an agreement “on the terms we accept”.
Yesterday, the Chief of the Israeli government described “unacceptable” the “changes that Hamas seeks to be made to the proposal” initially submitted by the US and transmitted by the mediators, Egypt and Qatar.
Where does Israel – Hamas deal stumble
According to Palestinian sources aware of its content, the proposal provides for a ceasefire for 60 days, the release of about half of the hostage – ten – that remain in the life and delivery of the corpses of the dead, in exchange for the release of Palestinians held by the Israeli authorities.
The changes that the Palestinian Islamist movement wanted, according to the same sources, relate to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the enclave, guarantees that hostilities will not start again after these 60 days, as well as to be re -enabled to the UN.
Mr Netanyahu has a “significant mission” in Washington, Israeli President Isaac Hertzog said after a meeting with him yesterday, “to guarantee that he will go on agreement for all our hostages to return to their homes.”
Of the 251 people who had been abducted during Hamas’ raid in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, 49 are left in the Palestinian pocket, but 27 of them have been declared dead by the Israeli army.
During the first ceasefire agreement in November 2023, which lasted a week, and then in the second, for two months at the beginning of the year, many dozen hostages were released in exchange for the release of Palestinian enclosures in Israeli detention centers.
On March 18, as talks on the continuation of the process had come to an end, Israel resumed the war in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas, a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the EU, took power in 2007.
Humanitarian disaster
In the Gaza Strip, the more two million inhabitants of which, forcedly displaced countless times, live in horrible conditions, according to the UN and NGO, at least 26 Palestinians were killed yesterday in Israeli bombings, according to Mahmoud Bassal.
Asked about this information from the French Agency, the Israeli army said he could not comment immediately.
Taking into account the restrictions imposed on the media in the Gaza Strip and the inability to access the field in the midst of war, the AFP notes that it is unable to verify in an independent manner of any part of any side acts on the Palestinian pocket.
On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that it had counted at least 613 dead during the distribution of aid to the enclave between May 26 and June 27, between 509 near the centers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GAF).
At Hamas’ raid in the southern part of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,219 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to a countdown by the French Agency based on official data.
In large -scale Israeli military retaliation military operations have since died at least 57,418 Palestinians, mostly civilians, during the latest data by the Hamas Government Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, which are reliable by the UN.
