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Israel, US and Qatar agree to resume truce talks with Hamas

Israel, U.S It is Qatar agreed this Saturday to resume negotiations to reach a truce with Hamasno significant progress since last April, according to Israeli media.

Talks will resume next week after a new scheme negotiated by the director of CIA, William Burnsthe head of Mossad, David Barneaand the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.

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Last Thursday, May 23, the Israeli War Cabinet gave the green light for its negotiating team to resume dialogue with the aim of reaching an agreement that would allow the return of the hostages who remain kidnapped in Link since last October 7th.

The decision came after the publication made that same day by the families of five of the girl soldiers, still in the hands of the Palestinian group, of the moment they were kidnapped by militants from the base. Nahal Ozwhere they fulfilled the compulsory military service.

The pressure also came Egyptwho threatened to withdraw as mediator in the conflict between Israel and Hamas due to accusations of mismanagement of the last round of negotiations, which led to its failure on May 10, according to the newspaper The Times of Israel.

For this Saturday, as has been customary since the beginning of the war in Linkthere are anti-government protests called in different parts of Israel in which they call for the resignation of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuthe call for early elections and the arrival of a pact with Hamas to exchange hostages for prisoners.

On Friday, after the rescue of three other bodies of hostages, the Israeli leader and the president Isaac Herzog They committed to continue working because they consider that their “national duty” is to achieve the return of all hostages.

Of the 253 kidnapped on October 7, they remain in the enclave 121 captives, 40 of them killed according to Israel – more than 70 according to Hamas-, although there have been four other hostages for years, two of them dead.

Source: Elcomercio

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