2024-04-11 06:59:15
Hamas has yet to respond to Israel’s proposal for a new hostage deal. The Times of Israel newspaper reported this with reference to sources, Day.Az reports with reference to TASS.
According to a senior Israeli official, whose name was not specified, the Hamas leadership is not interested in the deal. “[Лидер ХАМАС в Газе Яхья] Sinvar doesn’t want a deal. He is not interested in the suffering of the residents of Gaza,” the newspaper quotes him as saying. “He is waiting for friction to intensify, and this would lead to further escalation,” the source added.
He claims that Israel is showing “outstanding flexibility” in the negotiations, but international mediators are not exerting any influence on Hamas. “The mediators led by Qatar are not providing [на ХАМАС] no pressure. “Qatar is refraining from deporting Hamas leaders it has sheltered, and it is not closing their bank accounts containing hundreds of millions of dollars that are used for terrorism,” the newspaper’s source added.
On the night of April 2, Kan radio reported that the Israeli side presented mediators in Cairo with an “updated and more flexible position” regarding the return of residents to the northern Gaza Strip to move toward a hostage deal and was awaiting Hamas’s response. On April 4, Hamas leadership member Osama Hamdan noted that “the truce negotiations, unfortunately, are more likely to reach a dead end than to move forward.”
The Axios portal reported that the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, will arrive in Cairo over the weekend. In the Egyptian capital, he intends to hold talks on the hostages held in Gaza with the head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, David Barnea, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdel Rahman Al Thani, and the chief of Egyptian intelligence, Abbas Kamel.