The terrorist organization Hamas and the Israeli government have agreed to a six-week ceasefire, according to a senior US official. “The deal is actually already there. But I don’t want to create expectations in any way,” he said.
The Israeli government agrees to the plan. However, the deal depends on whether the radical Islamist Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages. Hamas has not yet issued a statement. The Israeli military announced it would temporarily suspend military activities for humanitarian purposes.
This applies from Saturday to Thursday, daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in various neighborhoods of the cities of Rafah and Deir al-Balah. During this time, aid deliveries could be made easier and citizens could safely reach distribution stations for the goods, the military said.
Bureaucratic obstacles
Aid organizations describe the situation of 2.3 million Palestinians as catastrophic. 80 percent of them have been internally displaced within the coastal area. Housing and communal infrastructure have been largely destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people live in tents or on the streets. They lack food, clean water, medicine, sanitation and health facilities.
Aid agencies say goods are often unable to reach people due to bureaucratic obstacles. Israeli authorities, who control Gaza’s border crossings with Egypt, deny that they are unnecessarily stopping the convoys.
The government of the Gulf emirate of Qatar, which mediates jointly with the US and Egypt, had set the goal of reaching the ceasefire before the start of Ramadan on March 10.
Source: Krone
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