Hamas receives truce proposal with 40-day ceasefire

The Palestinian Islamic group Hamas studies a proposal to give the green light to a truce in Gaza stripin which there would be a 40-day ceasefire, as well as the exchange of an Israeli hostage for ten Palestinian prisoners, sources close to the negotiations informed EFE this Tuesday.

The announcement of the project content truce comes at a time when the Palestinian group continues negotiating Doha with the conflict mediators to finalize the various thorny points that still remain to announce a ceasefire that is expected to be declared, according to U.Sin the next days.

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The idea is for it to happen before the beginning of the month Islamic Saint of Ramadanwhich is scheduled to begin on March 11th.

According to Palestinian sources from the group in Egypt -mediating country-, who requested anonymity, the proposal includes the release of all Israeli women, men over 50 and children under 19 in the hands of Hamasin addition to patients, who in total would be 40 hostages.

On the Israeli side, 400 Palestinian prisoners and will not arrest them again, according to the source, who added that during this ceasefire it will be allowed “the gradual return of displaced civilians to the north of the Link with the exception of men of military service age.”

Always according to the source, as Hamas has not officially announced until now, the project includes the repair of hospitals, bakeries in Link and 500 trucks will also be able to enter daily with humanitarian help.

Likewise, it was indicated that the proposal that emerged from the recent dialogues in Paris It is “American” and its end is “give the Israeli prime minister more time to prepare a new attack”in reference to the possible offensive against the Palestinian city of Rafain the extreme south of the Palestinian enclave and on the border Egypt.

Yesterday, sources close to the negotiations in Doha They told EFE that these negotiations “witnessed great progress” in reaching “a solid basis” in the exchange of hostages in the hands of Hamas by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

In turn, a nearby source of Hamas told EFE that the meetings of Doha focus on identifying the Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners who must be released, as well as the conditions for a ceasefire and the gradual return of Gazans north of the Strip.

The informant indicated that the progress achieved so far was possible thanks to the fact that Hamas “will abandon its demand for a permanent ceasefire” in exchange for the release of the hostages, but on condition of implementing a six-week truce during which talks to stop the war will begin “As soon as possible”.

The meetings of Doha are being carried out by groups of “experts and senior security officials” and are of a technical nature, according to the informants, who recalled that during the weekend they occurred in Paris meetings between intelligence chiefs of Qatar, Egypt, the United States and Israel.

Since the war began, Israel It is Hamas They 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.

Source: Elcomercio

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