The message comes after the Islamic group Hamas said that it sees “positive indicators” in indirect negotiations
The Israeli government announced this Saturday that it has accepted an invitation from American mediators and will send a delegation to Doha on Monday to talk about the high fire in Gaza.
“Israel has accepted the invitation of American mediators and will send a delegation to Doha on Monday with the intention of going into the negotiations,” said the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, in a short explanation.
The message comes after the Islamist group Hamás said “Positive indicators” In indirect negotiations with Israel to preserve the high fire agreement in the Gaza Strip and to continue to the second phase, in the words of one of the group’s spokespersons, Abdul Latif Al Qanou.
“The efforts of the Egyptian mediators and Qatari continue to complete the implementation of the Fire Alto agreement and start negotiations of the second phase, and the indicators are positive,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
The second phase of the Alto El Fuego agreement, which should have started on 1 March, includes the total withdrawal of the Israeli army of the enclave in exchange for the delivery of the rest of the living hostages in Gaza, as agreed with Israel in January.
The Islamist group has insisted on his dedication Go to the second phase of the high fireGiven the apparent stagnation of indirect conversations with Israel, who has asked a new agreement to expand the truce during Ramadan and Jewish Easter in exchange for the release of the rest of the hostages, without pulling his troops out of the enclave.
Israeli authorities also, They have suspended the access of humanitarian aid to Gaza On Sunday, a decision that Hamas has denounced as a ‘cheap blackmail’.
In the first phase of Alto El Fuego, which ended on March 1 after 42 days, 33 hostages (8 of them dead) were released in exchange for nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. In the comic there are 59 prisoners, the army of which is 35 dead.
Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and won 251. Israel responded with the invasion of the Gaza Strip, in which he killed more than 48,000 people and destroyed most of the Palestinian enclave.
Source: EITB
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