Egypt wants to resume in its territory, at the beginning of next week, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas to try to achieve a truce in Gaza, as Efe reported this Sunday citing an Egyptian security source. The new diplomatic impulse occurs after the pressure exerted on the Israeli government of Benjamín Netanyahu by the United States and the Arab media countries, Qatar and Egypt, and when citizen protests grow on Israeli soil – however, still minority.
If this new round of contacts be confirmed, this would imply the return of the Israeli government to the negotiating table after Netanyahu avoided ruling on the truce proposal that Hamas accepted six days ago.
The lack of an agreement favors the continuation of the humanitarian block that Israel imposes on the strip, and that is taking the population to an unsustainable situation. The UN decreed last Friday the famine in part of the enclave (the first one decreed outside Africa). The Gazati Ministry of Health has reported this Sunday of death for starvation for eight other people, and raised to 289 the number of mortal victims of the famine since the beginning of the offensive in October 2023; The vast majority (224), in the last two months. The total dead for Israeli attacks exceeds 62,600, according to the health authorities of the Strip, whose figures assume the UN.
Groups of Israeli protesters have concentrated in the early hours of this Sunday before the residences of some Netanyahu government ministers, such as Israel Katz, the head of Defense, who on Friday threatened to destroy Gaza City during the new offensive that Israel prepares in the main population core of the Strip. Humanitarian organizations predict a catastrophe if troops enter this city. And the families of the 50 Israeli hostages that remain in the hands of the Palestinian militia Hamás fear that the operation will end in the death of their loved ones.
The forum of the families of the captives and missing has convened along with other groups, for next Tuesday, a new day of general strike; The first, on August 17, was seconded by thousands of people and claimed as the greatest protest since the beginning of the war.
The Egyptian source cited by EFE indicates that the White House has made possible the return of Israel to the negotiations with the guarantee that the agreement reached involves the end of the war, do not advance partial as those that have previously have been previously. The goal would, therefore, beyond the 60 -day truce that Hamas accepted last week.
The Netanyahu government has reiterated in recent weeks that it would only agree on a truce that included the disarmament of Hamas and the emergence of a civil authority disconnected from that organization and the National Palestinian authority (ANP).
Despite this, according to the Egyptian security representative cited by the Spanish Agency, Cairo intends to boost the “gradual return” of the ANP, while the US, Saudi Arabia and Jordan bet on “the creation of a multinational force” that maintains control over the ground and supervises the humanitarian action driven by “international organizations”.
