Israeli war cabinet decides to send delegation to Qatar to negotiate truce in Gaza

The war cabinet Israel decided last night to send a delegation to Qatar in the coming days to negotiate indirectly with the Islamic group Hamas a truce in Gaza strip and a new hostage exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Israeli authorities are “cautiously optimistic” about the possibilities of reaching a new hostage agreement, reports Hebrew media, after the heads of the intelligence services of Israel, USA It is Egyptas well as Qatari officials held a meeting yesterday in Paris where they defined the terms of a new agreement.

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The document must now be sent to Hamas for your consideration, who until last night said he was not aware of the new terms.

According to the press, the new project provides for a six-week truce and the release of around 40 hostages in exchange for the release of between 200 and 300 Palestinian prisoners, which was approved by the Israeli Government.

After Hamas rejected another draft agreement reached in Paris at the beginning of February, Israeli sources indicate that the dialogue was resumed because the Islamic group renounced some of its demands.unacceptable” for Israel, such as the total cessation of hostilities and the departure of its troops from the Strip.

However, the Hamas leadership guarantees that it has not given up on these demands.fundamental”.

On the other hand, Israel remains determined to undertake a ground offensive in Rafain the far south of the Strip, where almost 1.5 million Gazans live, most of them displaced, although this could be delayed if truce negotiations, mediated by Qatarthis time they came to fruition.

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“We are working to obtain another blueprint for the release of our hostages, as well as to complete the elimination of the Hamas battalions in Rafah. That’s why I sent a delegation to Paris and tonight we will discuss the next steps in the negotiations“, noted the Israeli Prime Minister last night on his X account, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu announced that this week he will reconvene the cabinet to “approve operational action plans in Rafah, including the evacuation of civilians”.

“Only a combination of military pressure and firm negotiations will lead to the release of our hostages, the elimination of Hamas and the achievement of all war objectives.”, he indicated.

The war cabinet already voted on Thursday night on a document with the Israeli plan for the day after the war in Gaza stripwhich contemplates the control of Israel’s security, a type of military occupation similar to that of West Bankand the total elimination of UNRWA.

Since the start of the war, Israel and Hamas only reached a week-long truce agreement at the end of November, which allowed the release of 105 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.

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Four hostages were released by Hamas in October; three rescued by the Army – two of them a few weeks ago in a successful operation in Rafah-; while the bodies of eleven hostages were recovered, three of whom were mistakenly killed by Israeli troops.

There are 130 people kidnapped in the enclave in October 7th, about thirty of them are considered dead; although there have been four other captives for years, two of them dead.

More than 29,600 Gazans have died and more than 69,700 have been injured in more than four months of war in the Strip, which began on October 7 following a brutal Hamas attack on Israeli soil that left around 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped.

Source: Elcomercio

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