Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he instructed his negotiators to conclude the “technical details” of the agreement. Egypt confirmed that he will host a Hamas delegation for negotiations on “the conditions on the ground and details about the exchange of all Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners”
The negotiators of Israel and Hamas will begin an indirect dialogue in Egypt on the Donald Trump plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip and free the Israeli hostages.
This advance of diplomacy after almost two years of war in Gaza occurs after the Palestinian Islamist movement announced its willingness to free the hostages retained in the narrow territory, within the framework of the proposal of ceasing the fire of the president of the United States.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Saturday that he instructed his negotiators to conclude the “technical details” of the agreement. Egypt confirmed that it will host a Hamas delegation for negotiations on “the conditions on the ground and details about the exchange of all Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners.”
Egyptian media linked to the State previously reported that conflict parties will hold indirect conversations this Sunday and Monday. This dialogue cycle begins just before two years have passed since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza, which exploded with the Hamas attack of October 7 in Israel. Trump sent Egypt to his son -in -law, Jared Kushner, and his emissary for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
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The US president warned Hamas on Saturday that he will not “tolerate any delay” in the application of his plan. Likewise, Netanyahu declared that he hopes that Israeli hostages be released for the Jewish party of Sucot, which begins on Monday and lasts seven days.
“I hope that in the next few days we can bring all our hostages back (…) during the Sucot holiday,” Netanyahu said in a televised statement, and said that “military and diplomatic pressure” forced Hamas to accept that release. On Friday, the Palestinian Islamist movement declared itself willing to initiate immediate negotiations for the liberation of hostages and the end of the war in Gaza.
In response, Trump called Israel to “immediately stop the bombings in Gaza” to be able to free hostages safely and quickly. On Saturday night, there were mass marches in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to ask for a cessation of the conflict and to urge Trump to guarantee that the agreement is fulfilled. The Republican president said on his Truth Social platform on Saturday that Israel accepted an initial line of withdrawal in Gaza and that this information was shared with Hamas.
“When Hamas confirms it, the high fire will immediately enter into force, the exchange of hostages and prisoners will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of the withdrawal,” Trump said next to a map of the plan.
The bombings continue
Despite Trump’s call, the bombs continued to hit Gaza and local civil defense spokesman, Mahmud Basal, reported that 57 people died in the Israeli bombings of Saturday, 40 of them in Gaza City. Mahmud al Ghazi, a 39 -year -old resident, said that it seems that “Israel climbed her attacks” from Trump’s call.
«Now who will stop Israel? We need negotiations to advance faster to stop this genocide, ”he added. The Israeli army called on the displaced population not to return to Gaza City and warned that a return would be “extremely dangerous.”
In his response to Trump’s plan, Hamas insisted that he must keep a voice in what is decided on Gaza’s future. But the American proposal indicates that Hamas and other factions “have no role in the administration of Gaza”, while asking for the end of hostilities, the liberation of hostages, the gradual retirement of Israel de Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas. The administration of the territory would be in charge of a technical transition body headed by Trump.
The October 7 attack caused the death of 1,219 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to a balance sheet prepared by the AFP From official data. During this unprecedented assault, Islamist militiamen kidnapped 251 people, 47 remain captive in Gaza and the Israeli army declared that 25 are dead.
The Israeli retaliation offensive has caused at least 67,074 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Ministry of Health of Gaza, governed by Hamas and considered reliable
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