Hamas’s envoys meet with Egyptian and Qatari mediators before negotiating with Israel
The Egyptian and Catari mediators have met Monday with a delegation from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamás, headed by the negotiating leader of the movement, Jalil al Hayya, in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheij, in the Sinai Peninsula. The meeting has produced hours before starting this afternoon indirect conversations with Israel, with American participation, about the peace plan for Gaza proposed by Donald Trump.
A high -ranking Egyptian security source has reported that the meeting is “a prelude to indirect conversations with Israel, with US participation, which is expected to begin later today [por este lunes]”In the city located on the shores of the Red Sea.
The informant, on condition of anonymity, has affirmed that the Hamas delegation has shown “a great receptivity to the Egyptian-Catarí mediation efforts and a desire to solve the situation in Gaza according to Trump’s” plan, 20 points.
He has also indicated that Egypt and Qatar were “interested in meeting with the Palestinian delegation before the meeting with the Israelis and the mediators of Washington to pave the way for a rapid completion of the approvals and the declaration of a high fire.”
He stressed that all mediating parties are “waiting for the Israeli position”, especially after Hamas announced that he accepted in a peace plan, but wanted to negotiate some details, to “ensure the success of this round of negotiations.”
According to Trump’s plan, the first phase – which focuses the negotiations in Egypt – stipulates the liberation by Hamas of all Israeli hostages, alive and dead, that the Islamist group maintains retained since its attack in Israeli territory of October 7, 2023 in exchange for the release of Israel of hundreds of Palestinians.
An American negotiating team will also participate in these conversations headed by Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. The plan of the Republican president proposes the immediate end of the war and the formation of a transition government for Gaza, supervised by the US president and the former British prime minister Tony Blair. The proposal also contemplates the demilitarization of the strip and the possibility of negotiating a Palestinian state in the future, something discarded, however, by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (EFE)
