2024-05-07 06:09:24
While the Palestinian militant group Israel after controversy over anti-Semitism”>Hamas expressed its agreement to mediators in Qatar and Egypt on the 6th (local time) to propose a cease-fire agreement, Israeli officials warned not to take Hamas’ announcement that it would accept the cease-fire agreement at face value, according to the Times of Israel. Israel reported.
Israeli officials told local public broadcasters KAN radio and Channel 13 that the terms accepted by Hamas were not the terms Israel agreed to. Israel’s Channel 12 also reported that the deal was not the same as the one agreed upon with Egyptian mediators 10 days ago.
According to reports, the proposal accepted by Hamas was unilaterally put forward by Egypt and is not being taken seriously in Israel until details are clarified.
“After Hamas agreed to the ceasefire proposal from the mediators, it is now up to Israel to decide whether to agree to the ceasefire agreement or block it,” a senior Hamas official told AFP. An Israeli official told Reuters that Hamas’ announcement appeared to be a ploy to push Israel toward rejecting the deal.
Hamas’ announcement that it would accept the ceasefire came shortly after a phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns traveled from Doha to Jerusalem on Monday.
According to a Channel 12 report, Israel said it was currently carefully evaluating Hamas’ response and would issue a structured comment on the evening of the 6th.
According to the Times of Israel, mediators from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar have been negotiating with Hamas over the third phase of the proposal, which was recently approved by Israel. The proposal has not yet been made public, but the first phase reportedly involves the release of 33 living hostages, including women, children, the elderly and the sick, during a 40-day ceasefire in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners.
Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas began anew on the 16th day of the ceasefire to hammer out an agreement to restore sustainable tranquility to the Gaza Strip in phases 2 and 3.
In the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, in exchange for securing hundreds of additional prisoners, all remaining prisoners will be released during an additional 42-day ceasefire period and the Israeli military (IDF) will withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
In the third phase, the ceasefire will continue for another 42 days, and Hamas is known to exchange the bodies of those killed or who died in captivity on October 7 last year with the bodies of Palestinian prisoners who died in Israeli prisons.
The rehabilitation of Gaza begins with the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, starting with the restoration of the Gaza Strip’s roads, electricity, water, sanitation and communications infrastructure. Preparation of a five-year reconstruction plan for housing and civil infrastructure in Gaza will be completed in the second phase of the agreement, and construction will begin in the third phase.
An Israeli official said the proposal accepted by Hamas on Thursday was a “watered-down” version of the Egyptian proposal that included “far-reaching” conclusions that Israel could not accept.
According to a Channel 12 report, Hamas has stepped up its demands in recent days, demanding that the war end in the first phase of the 40-day agreement rather than in phases 2 and 3.
Israel has refused to stop the fighting as part of the hostage negotiations, insisting instead that it will resume fighting once the ceasefire agreement is implemented in accordance with the twin war goals of returning the hostages and destroying Hamas’ military and governance capabilities.
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2024-05-07 06:09:24