This morning, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Netanyahu to promote a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Both politicians held a private meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem.
Egyptmain mediator in last attempt for a armistice in Loopstated on wednesday that it is continuing its efforts “with all parties” to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and Hamasand ensures that contacts are developed in a “positive environment“, according to the Egyptian television channel Al QaheraNews.
They emphasize that Cairo is “maintaining contacts with all interested parties to resolve some controversial points” between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
These statements come as Egyptian authorities wait for the Hamas leadership to communicate its final response to the latest report proposal for a ceasefire that makes it possible exchange of Palestinian prisoners for hostages and the more aid to the people of Gazaunder the ceaseless attack and siege of Israel.
A team of Hamas negotiators held “extensive talks” in Cairo on Monday, where the new proposal was explained to them, and Egyptian sources said the Palestinian group’s delegation “left” the Egyptian capital “but will come back with a written answer“.
That proposal had been negotiated by senior officials Egyptian security officials were in Israel on Friday, amid increasing diplomatic efforts and pressure for a pause to also prevent a possible Israeli military operation in Rafah.
That would be the second ceasefire between Hamas and Israel since the start of the war in Gaza. After 208 days of warthe Gaza Strip is in a state of catastrophic devastation, with 80% of the population displaced, water shortages and an extreme lack of food, pushing some 200,000 people in the north to the brink of famine, in addition to a growing proliferation of diseases and more than 34,500 deaths – mostly women and children.
Blinken reiterates to the Israeli president his commitment to reach a ceasefire ‘now’
The Secretary of State of the United States, Anthony Blinkenhas reiterated its commitment reach a ceasefire ‘now’ to return the hostages and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, as he said on Wednesday during a meeting with the President of Israel: Isaac Herzogin Tel Aviv.
“We are determined to reach a ceasefire that brings the hostages home, and to make it happen now. And the only reason that wouldn’t happen is because of Hamas. There is a proposal on the table. And as we have said, without delays.” , without apology. The time is now,” Blinken said, according to a statement from the Israeli president’s spokesman.
“Right now there is a very smart proposal on the table, Hamas has to say yes, this has to happen,” Blinken said, as quoted by the liberal Israeli newspaper. Haaretz.
In addition, the US diplomat also wanted to commemorate the residents of Gaza “who are suffering from this crossfire caused by Hamas,” claiming to be working to ensure they have access to food, medicine, water and shelter.
Herzog, for his part, repeats that Israel complies with international law and has expressed his opinion rejection of the International Criminal Court (CPI), given the possibility of issuing arrest warrants against alleged war crimes against three senior Israeli officials, including the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuthe newspaper reported on Monday Haaretz.
This morning, Blinken met with Netanyahu to promote a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Both politicians held a private meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem.
Far-right Israeli minister warns that deal with Hamas means “throwing everything in the trash”
The Minister of Settlements and National Missions of Israel, the far-right Orit Strockhas claimed in an interview with Army Radio that the agreement being discussed to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, “It means throwing everything awaybecause it turns its back on key military objectives.
‘A government that sends people into battle, that calls up thousands of soldiers and reservists who have left everything behind to fight for the objectives that the government has set for itself and then tells them: ‘It doesn’t matter, we’ll throw it all away’, should not exist,” criticizes Strock.
The minister calls the ceasefire proposal brokered in Cairo ‘reckless, abhorrent and terrible’. For Strock, however, re-signing a pact with the Palestinian group would mean “abandoning the majority of the hostages” because “it would only require the release of at most 20 or 30 of them, out of the 133 that remain , would make possible. “
According to details leaked to several media outlets, the latest ceasefire proposal would include the exchange of 33 living hostages for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners, in addition to the return of Gazans displaced to the north.
With these statements, Strock joins the voices of the government’s other Jewish supremacist partners, the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrichand that of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvirwho have made it clear who will leave the executive branch if a ceasefire is reached.
Source: EITB
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