The time has come. Israel and Hamas are prepared on Monday to start indirect negotiations in Egypt that must lead to the implementation of the road map raised by Donald Trump. A document, but greeted by the international community as an option for Gazati to stop being killed and Israeli hostages are returned to their homes. Now you have to realize the 20 points written by the president of the United States, refine them and apply them.
On Tuesday, two years of the Militia Party attack of October 7, 2023, which left 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped, responded by Tel Aviv with an offensive that lasts until today and exceeds 66,000 those killed.
The attacks have not ceased on the weekend, it still does not know anything new of the kidnapped, but in the last hours hope grows to a high fire, finally. The Prime Minister of Israel has said that he hopes that the release of hostages can be announced this week and Trump himself has also announced that this week “the first phase of his plan should be completed. “I have been told that the first phase should be completed this week, and I ask everyone to act quickly … The time is crucial or a massive blood spill will occur, something that nobody wants to see,” Trump written in his social truth network. That was last night, when he changed his threatening tone of the morning, when he said in an interview with the CNN that Hamas faces the “total annihilation” if he refuses to give Gaza’s control, as his plan stipulates.
Hamas has not bought everything at the foot together from Trump, but the Republican has not taken badly that details and changes are required. He says he understands that the Palestinian group has a will to reach a lasting calm and that is worth it, for now. Israel has declared its support for the new American initiative, although it has also made it clear that it does not want to reach the final phase of the entire process, which is the establishment of a. At the moment, the world clings to the initial flying goal, in which it would be released to the remaining 48 hostages – about 20 of which it is believed that they are still alive – within a period of three days. He would deliver the power of Gaza, which has been held since 2007, and would disarm.
The delegation headed by the main Israeli negotiator, Ron Dermer, will arrive on Monday for the conversations to Sharm el-Sheij, on the coast of Egypt and a city that has been the usual scenario of other negotiations on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the past. An Egyptian official that the arrival of the Hamas delegation has already occurred yesterday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for not being authorized to inform the press, indicated that the American envoy will join the conversations. The first discussions will focus on the proposed exchange of hostages by Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt.
The Secretary of State of North American, Marco Rubio, described the situation as “as close as we have been freeing all hostages.” The Gazatis did not deserve words on their side. In statements, he described two later phases that will come, after Hamas accepted Trump’s frame: the hostages are released and Israel retires from Gaza to the so -called “yellow line”, where he was in August. Rubio said to the same medium that Hamas should free the hostages when they are ready and that the bombings must end so that they can be released.
The American plan also addresses the future of the strip. In an exchange of messages with Jake Tapper of CNN, Trump said there would be a “total annihilation” if Hamas remained in power. Trump also sent a text message indicating that Netanyahu was willing to end the bombings and to achieve peace in Gaza, but added: “Soon with the rest.”
Israeli government spokeswoman Shosh Badrosian, informed journalists that Netanyahu is “regular contact” with Trump and that the prime minister has stressed that conversations in Egypt “will be limited to a few days a few days.” “I hope we are closer to an agreement on hostages from the agreement (of Alto El Fuego) of January,” added Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, in a public speech.
Angusticated relatives of the hostages congregated near the Netanyahu residence in Jerusalem, again, this Sunday, claiming speed because every hour counts, and some urged Trump to continue pressing his president, who they do not see completely convinced, but also pressed for their ultra -right and nationalists who do not want to hear about a pact with the Palestinians. These families have gone from fear redoubled by the lives of theirs before the ordered by Netanyahu to this illusion for having them soon back. “We cannot allow such historical agreement to be sacrificed again,” said Michel Ilouz, father of Guy Ilouz, in statements.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people marched this weekend for several European cities in support of the Palestinians and foreign ministers from eight Muslim majority countries issued a joint statement in which the measures were welcomed with satisfaction towards a possible fire. An important guarantee to guarantee calm throughout the region, in. They also underlined their commitment to the return of the Palestinian authority to Gaza, the unification of Gaza and the West Bank and the achievement of an agreement that leads to a “total Israeli withdrawal” of Gaza. That is one of the main touch stones: knowing when that withdrawal will be.
Rubio told ABC that decisions about a government structure or an international group to manage Gaza can be taken simultaneously with the first step of the high fire. Hamas wants to have greater participation of the Palestinians themselves. “That is the part that I think is going to be a bit more difficult to solve, but that is what will give permanence at the end of the conflict,” he said.
Death does not stop
Trump ordered Israel to stop bombing Gaza, but residents and local hospitals said the attacks continued throughout the territory. The Israeli government spokeswoman, Badrosian, said that “certain bombings have ceased within the Gaza Strip.” But the head of the Military Staff of Israel, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, said that “if the political effort is not successful, we will fight again.”
At least eight people died on Sunday in multiple attacks in the city of Gaza, according to the Shifa hospital, where they were treated. A security officer, who spoke under anonymity for not being authorized to talk to the media, said the attacks were against Hamas militants who represented a threat to the troops.
Four other people were shot dead near a help distribution center in Rafah’s southern city, according to Nasser Hospital. The Israeli army declared not being involved.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirmed the death of his colleague Abed El Hameed Qaradaya, who was injured in an attack on Thursday that killed another colleague in Gaza. It is his murdered in the area.
The Ministry of Health of this Palestinian territory reported Sunday that the number of Palestinian dead in the war amounted to 67,139, with almost 170,000 injured. The Ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but states that approximately half of the deceased are women and children.
The Israeli army has said, on the other hand, that it continues to dismantle Hamas’s infrastructure and warned residents not to return to northern Gaza. Citizens are at the abyss embroider for Tel Aviv attacks and for the humanitarian crisis, while trying to count the hours, waiting for them to be the latter, until weapons stop.
