2024-03-05 21:58:20
Egyptian and Qatari officials mediating talks between Israel and Hamas in Cairo are pushing for the Palestinian group to provide a list of Israeli hostages to be released as part of a six-week ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
As Day.Az reports with reference to Interfax, The Guardian reports this.
The newspaper’s interlocutors noted that Israel did not send a delegation to the second day of negotiations in Cairo, demanding that Hamas present a list of 40 elderly, sick and female hostages who would be released first.
Israel has “more or less” accepted the six-week ceasefire, US officials said.
In their opinion, the absence of the Israeli delegation on the second day of negotiations in Cairo “is not a bad sign,” since Israeli negotiators could have arrived within a couple of hours if an agreement on the list had been reached.
They said it remained unclear what prevented Hamas from preparing a list identifying the first 40 hostages.
The interlocutors suggested that the failure to prepare the list may indicate problems with communication between Hamas units inside and outside Gaza.
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