Israel will send mediators on Sunday to restart conversations with Hamas, after a militant group said it was ready to “immediately” negotiate the proposal of US President Donald Trump for a 60 -day ceasefire in Gaza.
While the Office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the unspecified changes that Hamas were looking for were “unacceptable to Israel”, he added in his statement that the Israeli delegation would go to Doha for “close interviews and continuing negotiations”. Hamas has a representative in Qatar, although both parties do not negotiate directly.
The proposal of Trump, which has accepted Netanyahu, will be one of the main topics during his visit to Washington, where he will meet the US President on Monday.
Interviews about the end of the war, which began in October 2023, have been suspended since spring.
The agreement to see Hamas returns half of the 50 hostages he still organizes and persecuted mediated conversations with Israel about the end of the war. It is assumed that about 20 hostages are alive and the discussed agreement would return 10 live and 18 dead hostages during these 60 days.
“The Hamas movement has completed its internal consultations and discussions with Palestinian factions and forces concerning the latest proposal submitted by the mediators,” Hamas said in a statement on Friday, adding that the proposal in the “positive spirit”.
The agreement would stop, if not the war between Iran, supported by Hamas and Israel, which killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza and destabilized the wider Middle East.
Trump said on Friday that “next week could have an agreement on Gaza,” and he was “very optimistic, but changing every day”.
The Israeli official who spoke on an anonymity said that Hamas’s reaction to the current proposal is looking for changes in three key areas, including moving Israeli troops in Gaza and control over humanitarian aid.
The official said that the required changes in Hamas were considerable and worrying and would not be easy to overcome it. What is needed said the clerk is the pressure of the US on Qatar to force Hamas to retreat.
While the Netanyahu government agreed to the US, Washington’s proposal, and other main mediators – Qatar and Egypt – they could not get the parties to overcome key sticky points. Hamas said that any ceasefire must end the war and also rejected Israeli requirements for disarmament and removal from power in Gaza.
Israel intensified military operations, although he agreed to talk. The army ordered tens of thousands of people to leave the city of Gaza from Tuesday and step into air strikes and invasions in the northern city, which led to an increase in the number of deaths.
On Saturday, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the organization supported by Israel and the US, which is trying to take over the assistance in Gaza to prevent it from Hamas, that the grenades were thrown on those distribution assistance and injured two Americans. Both are in stable condition.
It was part of the ongoing struggle to control assistance, which is considered the key to power and influence in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands are without hygiene or permanent food source.
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