Hamas Ceasefire Proposal: Israel’s Response and Latest Updates

2024-05-06 20:59:00

The terrorists are said to have agreed to a ceasefire. In Israel, the willingness to negotiate is considered a trick;

death Islamic Hamas According to his own statement, he has one of them mediators Egypt and Qatar proposed a cease-fire in the Gaza war United. The organization announced this on Telegram on Monday afternoon. According to information from Israeli circles, the proposal is unacceptable. It’s a “softened” Egyptian draft, an insider said. There are “broad” conclusions with which Israel disagrees.

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Earlier, the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, informed the two mediators that Hamas had accepted his proposal for a ceasefire agreement. To that end, he spoke on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, and the Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel. However, Hamas circles in the Lebanese capital Beirut said it was a “key development”.

However, it was said that this is no longer the same proposal that Israel and Egypt agreed on ten days ago and that was the basis of the indirect negotiations. “Every possible clause” had been submitted, the report said. Another report said it was a unilateral proposal without Israel’s involvement. Egypt unilaterally relaxed the regulations so that Hamas would agree. The proposal is not acceptable to Israel in this form.

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People were celebrating the peace that was already approaching

According to Israeli media reports, Israel’s Police Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, considers the approval a “trick”. “There is only one answer to the tricks and games of Hamas: an immediate order to capture Rafah, increase military pressure and continue to harass Hamas until it is completely defeated,” said the right-wing politician. A statement from Netanyahu’s office said Hamas’ proposal for a ceasefire was far from Israel’s original demands. However, an Israeli delegation will travel to Egypt to increase the possibilities of a deal that Israel can accept. The US government also says it is checking the approval of the Islamist Hamas.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the announcement and called on the international community to pressure Israel to agree to the deal, the Palestinian News Agency in the West Bank reported.

In the Gaza Strip, after it was announced that Hamas had agreed to the mediation proposal, people took to the streets and celebrated as if peace was already closer. They shouted “God is great.” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was optimistic. He previously expressed on X, Twitter, that he was closely following the “positive developments”. He asked all parties to continue their efforts to reach an agreement in the Gaza war to end the Palestinian tragedy.

A few hours later, the Israeli army attacked targets in the eastern city of Rafah on Monday afternoon. According to an army spokesman, these were Hamas facilities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet had previously decided to continue the military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip to increase military pressure on Hamas and enforce Israel’s war goals.

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Months of negotiations

Israel and Hamas have not been in direct negotiations with each other for months, but talks are underway. Their focus has recently moved from Qatar to Egypt. In total, terrorists from Hamas and other extremist organizations killed more than 250 people in the Gaza Strip on October 7. During a week-long ceasefire at the end of November last year, Hamas released 105 hostages. In return, Israel released 240 Palestinian prisoners from its prisons. It was recently feared that of the 133 hostages still believed to be in the Gaza Strip, many are no longer alive.

Hamas continued to demand a comprehensive ceasefire, including the complete withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip. Israel, which has declared the total destruction of Hamas as its goal, has so far denied this.

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The UN warns Israel of attacks

The Israeli military on Monday asked about 100,000 residents of the eastern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt to go to the Al-Mawasi camp, a few kilometers to the north. They were thus informed through SMS, telephone, leaflets and Arabic media. According to eyewitness reports, many people fled quickly, using donkey carts to carry their belongings.

The Islamists have so far insisted on an agreement in which Israel promises from the beginning to end the war and withdraw its troops completely from the Gaza Strip. However, Israel rejects such an obligation and wants to reserve additional options for military action. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently made several statements in which he was inconsistent. He said that Israel would attack Rafah even if a hostage agreement was reached.

With the military operation in Rafah, Israel is trying to destroy the remaining battalions of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas, which it has been fighting in the coastal strip since October. Hamas leadership and hostages are believed to be in the city on the border with Egypt. The Gaza war triggered the unprecedented monster with more than 1,200 deaths committed by terrorists from Hamas and other groups in Israel on October 7.

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Food, water and medicine

An Israeli military spokesman said it was a “limited operation”. People should move to an “enhanced humanitarian zone” in Al-Mawasi area. There is food, water and medicine. The army is also enabling them to establish field hospitals there. The spokesperson emphasized that the provision of humanitarian aid to the population would continue unhindered during the evacuation operation. These could be brought to the coastal strip in a number of ways, for example through the port in Athna Sod.

The Hamas-controlled health authority said on Monday that at least 28 Palestinians had been killed in separate Israeli attacks in Rafah since Sunday evening. Violent attacks were also reported in the eastern city of Rafah on Monday.

According to the health authority, 34,735 Palestinians have been killed and more than 78,000 injured since the war began seven months ago. The information, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, cannot be independently verified.