While Egyptian television reports “significant progress” in negotiations over the release of hostages still held in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for an end to the talks.
According to the newspaper Haaretz, the right-wing extremist politician said during a meeting of his party on Monday that his party considers it necessary to order the halt to the talks, which also entail a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza war. Instead, it is necessary to move to “a new phase of intense fighting,” the newspaper further quoted Ben-Gvir, who is also Minister of National Security.
Hamas: “Hostages are in different areas”
On Monday, representatives of the mediating states the US, Qatar and Egypt met with the Islamist Hamas for the second day of a round of talks in Cairo. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding, among other things, that the terrorist organization submit a list of the names of the surviving hostages. Because of the Israeli attacks, the Islamists cannot say which of the hostages kidnapped from Israel are still alive, a senior Hamas member told the British broadcaster BBC on Sunday. “They are in different areas with different groups,” the report said.
Apparently there is also another problem. As the American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” reported on Sunday, representatives from Qatar and Egypt have not had any contact with Hamas’s early leader Jihia al-Sinwar for at least a week. But he would have to agree to a deal between Israel and the terrorist militia.
Source: Krone
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