Hamas announced on Wednesday that he has agreed to release 10 hostages in the framework of the ongoing efforts to reach a high fire in Gaza. However, he reported that the ongoing conversations for a truce were “difficult” due to the “intransigence” of Israel, as the agency collects Reuters.
The Palestinian Group said that the ongoing conversations on Alto El Fuego have several friction points, such as the aid flow, the withdrawal of the Israeli forces of the Gaza Strip and “genuine guarantees” for a high permanent fire.
In your statement, collected by the medium Hamas has assured that “despite the challenges of conversations,” he continues to act “seriously and with a positive spirit with mediators to overcome obstacles.”
For its part, the Israeli General Holde Stingy pronounhe has assured that the conditions to reach a truce and move towards an agreement for the release of hostages are possible thanks to the damage that the Israeli army inflicted on the government and military capacities of the Islamist group.
“During the Operation Carros de Gideon (the operation that Israel launched this May), we seriously damaged the governmental and military capacity of Hamas; and thanks to the operational force we demonstrate, the conditions to advance in an agreement for the release of the hostages were created,” he said at the University of National Security of that country.
In addition, he has criticized the “voices” who try to weaken the Israeli army, while describing the attacks and accusations against their ethics as “despicable.”
A recent investigation of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Based on testimonies of soldiers stationed in Gaza unveiled that Israeli troops They enjoy the approval of their commanders to shoot unarmed Palestinians in food cast centers.
In the last hours, Donald Trump has affirmed that he believes that there may be “this week or the following.” The president of the United States has referred to the meeting he has held with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, these last days in Washington. “We talk mainly about Gaza. I think we have options (to close an agreement) this week or the next. There is nothing definitive,” he said.
Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoffdetailed on Tuesday that the plan proposed by the United States contemplates a high 60 -day fire, as well as the release of ten living hostages and the delivery of nine bodies. In addition, during the last days of indirect meetings in Qatar between an Israeli delegation and another of Hamas, it has been possible to reduce the points of disagreement from four to only one, as he added.
