Israel has started the “preparations” for the application of the Donald Trump’s peace plan in Gaza, which will begin with the release by Hamas of the 48 Israeli hostages that remain in their hands, as announced in the early hours of this Saturday the office of the prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu. The statement came after five hours of vertigo, the time elapsed since, on Friday night, the Islamist movement announced its peace plan. The president of the United States tried that response as a yes – although he admitted that there are details to close – and urged Israel to “immediately stop the bombings.” This Saturday, Trump has tried to accelerate the application of the peace plan, warning that he will not tolerate “delays” and over the Islamist militia to “act quickly”
In the morning, the Netanyahu government had ordered the troops to limit its activity in the strip to “defensive operations”, according to the military radio, although it has not stopped bombarding completely, although Trump has assured this Saturday afternoon in a message. There are, in fact, among them numerous children, from midnight on Friday, according to Gaza’s civil defense. A single attack in the Barrio de Taffah, in Gaza City, has killed at least 17 people. Egypt has announced that the negotiation on the agreement will begin next Monday.
“After Hamas’s response, Israel is preparing for the immediate application of the first phase of President Trump’s plan for the immediate release of all hostages,” says the statement, of only two paragraphs, of the office of the Israeli prime minister. The text continues: “We will continue to fully collaborate with the president and his team to end the war according to the principles established by Israel, which are consistent with the vision of President Trump.”
The second Palestinian armed group, the Islamic jihad, has joined this Saturday to Hamas’s response to Trump’s plan, which clears the way for the delivery of the last 48 hostages, of the total of 251 to which he hibed in the attack of October 7, 2023., And the Islamic jihad has some in his possession. In a statement, this group clarifies that the reaction of Hamas “represents the position” of the “factions of the Palestinian resistance” and that it has been the result of consultations between them.
Meanwhile, negotiations have begun to close the start -up of the plan. Israeli channel 12 had pointed out that they would begin tomorrow, Sunday, in Egypt (one of the three mediators, along with Qatar and the United States), and that Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Israeli negotiating team are on their way. According to Saudi television to Hadath, a delegation from Hamas will arrive tonight to Cairo. In the afternoon, Egypt has confirmed that the dialogue will start on Monday.
Almost immediately after the end of the Festivity of Sabbat-when religious Jews even turn their mobile phones- the ultra-rightist Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, has defined as a “serious mistake” that Netanyahu has accepted that negotiation and suspend the offensive in Gaza City. That is “an infallible recipe” so that “Hamas will make Israel waste time” and “the Israeli position is eras more and more.”
The other prominent member of the extreme nationalist right in the coalition of the Israeli government, has threatened that his party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish power) will leave the government if Hamas “continues to exist”, once those last hostages in Gaza are released.
Trump also has ruling again this Saturday afternoon on the peace plan in a message in Truth. “I appreciate that Israel has temporarily suspended the bombings to give a chance to the release of the hostages and the peace agreement,” says the president, before warning Hamas that “he must act quickly or, otherwise, everything will have ended.” Trump emphasizes that he will not tolerate “delays, as many believe will happen, nor any result in which Gaza is a threat.”
“Let’s solve this, fast. Everyone will be treated fairly!”, Promises the US president, he informs Macarena Vidal Liy.
Trump’s proposal for Gaza foresees immediate delivery, within 72 hours, of Israeli hostages, the end of bombings and a progressive withdrawal of Israel’s troops, which would maintain, however, a permanent presence in the perimeter of the territory. In practice, the clock will begin to tell when the US president decides. After a first message in his social network, Truth, optimistic and bombastic (talks about achieving “the long sought after peace in the Middle East”), Trump later admitted in a video that must still be “definitively captured” the last details.
The siege of Gaza City
In the early hours of this Saturday, shortly after the US president urged to stop the attacks, the Netanyahu government ordered its troops to “reduce its activity” in the territory and limit it to “defensive operations”, according to the country’s military radio. Doron Kadosh, a journalist of that media, explained that, in practice, that means that.
Despite this, the Israeli army Arab spokesman, Avichay Adraee, has warned the Gazati this morning in a tweet that the northern half of Gaza, where the besieged capital is located, “continues to be considered a dangerous area.” They also urge them to go south along the coastal road to Rashid. The forces of the Israeli army “continue to surround Gaza City”, and return to it “represents an extreme danger,” warns the military spokesman. According to the civil defense of the territory, 40 of the 57 dead of this day perished in attacks in the capital of Gazatí.
Khalil Abu Shammala, former director in Gaza of the Addameer Human Rights Organization, expresses an “cauto optimism” from Nuseirat, a town in the center of the strip in which he took refuge after escaping from the capital with his wife and three children.
“We are exhausted and we need to feel that we are human beings,” explains this activist. “We hope to return to our house in Ciudad de Gaza as events develop,” he says, before formulating another yearning: that his house in the Tel al Hawa neighborhood remains “still standing.” On Trump’s proposal, he summarizes: “The priority for people here is to stop this genocide.”
Razan, the false name of another Palestine that speaks from deir to Balah, also in the center of the strip, emphasizes that “they have not yet lost hope” that the life of the Gazaties will improve. “Throughout the night,” says the woman, “the bombings continued”, but “at nine in the morning” (one hour less during Spanish peninsular schedule), we felt that the situation was changing, that there was calm, and the explosions ceased completely. ”
“Negotiate the details”
In his response on Friday, but asked to “negotiate the details” of that operation and expressly eluded to enter thorny issues such as the international protection of the strip; However, Trump immediately gave it good. In a message on his social network, Truth clarified that the Palestinian group “is ready for lasting peace” and bombings in Gaza to “be able to get hostages safely.”
A Palestinian technocratic government would administer the current affairs of the Strip, but under the supervision of an international organism, chaired by Trump himself and in which the former British prime minister Tony Blair will also participate. The document – which only includes a specific term, that of the release of the kidnapped – also forces the Palestinian militia to deliver their weapons.
The president had imposed on that same day, which expired tomorrow Sunday at 6:00 p.m., Washington time (six more hours in Spanish peninsular hours), and threatened the militia to unleash “all hell” on Gaza if he rejected his proposal. Hamas’s response finally came on Friday night.
New victims
Meanwhile, the drip of victims continues, according to Palestinian sanitary sources. A person in charge of the Nasser Hospital has informed the Qatari chain to the Jazeera that the attack of an Israeli drone against a displaced store has killed two children in the area defined as “safe” by Israel de Al Mawasi, in southern Gaza. Four other people have died and one more in an air attack in the center of the strip, according to local sources cited by Reuters and the Palestine Wafa agency.
In total, at least 20 people have died in Israeli attacks since midnight on Friday, that is, after Trump urged Israel to put them an end, according to the figures provided by the health authorities of the Strip.
In Israel, the forum that brings together the families of the hostages has called the population to join the demonstration this Saturday in Tel Aviv, who celebrate every week at the end of the sabbatical day. “It is the moment, the place and the occasion to demonstrate that nothing is stronger than Israeli solidarity […] Stoping the war is immediately essential to avoid serious and irreversible damage to hostages, “he says in a statement, in which Netanyahu calls” to immediately start effective and rapid negotiations to bring all all of them “the kidnapped. In his response statement, Hamás conditioned the release of the captives to be” the conditions for the process “, which in the document are the“ suspension of all. air and artillery bombings. ”
“We are on decisive days for an agreement; days that will determine when living hostages will return for rehabilitation and those killed for a decent burial,” the note continues. “It is the moment in which all Israel must join and demand firmly: do everything possible so that our brothers and sisters return home .: Bring them home home and put an end to war!”
