2024-04-29 05:05:00
The prospect of a truce is growing in Gaza. This Monday, April 29, the Islamist movement Israel after controversy over anti-Semitism”>Hamas gives its response to a proposed truce in the war with Israel in Gaza, associated with a release of hostages.
« The atmosphere is positive, barring new obstacles posed by Israel,” an official of the Islamist movement who requested anonymity told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “ No major issues are raised in the comments and requests that Hamas will submit regarding the content of the proposal” during this meeting, he added.
READ ALSO Hamas-Israel war: hope of a truce, Netanyahu-Biden appeal… What to remember this SundayThis is a proposal developed by Egypt and amended by Israel. It was presented in response to Hamas which, in mid-April, insisted on a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a hypothesis that Israel refuses to consider.
A tripartite meeting is to take place in Cairo between Egypt, Qatar and Hamas, whose delegation will be led by Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the movement’s political wing for the Gaza Strip and very involved in the negotiations, said a senior Hamas official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Towards the establishment of lasting calm?
Details of the Israeli proposal have not been leaked, but, according to the American news site Axioswhich cites Israeli officials, it includes a willingness to discuss “ the establishment of lasting calm” in Gaza.
« If there is an agreement (truce), we will suspend the operation in Rafah,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday April 27 to Israeli channel N12. “ The release of the hostages is a fundamental priority for us, he added. If there is a possibility of reaching an agreement, we will do it. »
READ ALSO Israel strengthened in its anti-Islamist war « America is the only country capable of preventing Israel from committing this crime,” declared Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, according to whom such an operation would be “ the greatest disaster in the history of the Palestinian people.”
The meeting in Cairo comes almost seven months after the start of the war triggered by the bloody terrorist attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement against Israel on October 7. Egypt, Qatar and the United States are trying, so far in vain, to convince the two belligerents to stop fighting. At the end of November, a one-week truce, however, allowed the release of 80 hostages held by Hamas against 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
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