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5/17/2025–|Last update: 17:01 (Mecca time)
A leader in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) confirmed that indirect negotiations with the Israeli side in Doha discuss all issues “without preconditions”, while the American website Axius revealed that the Israeli negotiating team recommended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move forward in the release of detainees from the Gaza Strip.
Reuters quoted Hamas leader Taher Al -Nono as saying that a new round of indirect talks with the Israeli delegation on the ceasefire started today, Saturday, in Doha.
Al -Nuno stressed that the two sides are discussing all issues without “preconditions.”
For his part, the Israeli news website “Walla” quoted sources that Hamas agreed to a discussion that allows each party to present its position on the prisoner deal and the ceasefire.
The Israeli channel “Kan” also reported that Hamas and Israel agreed to hold negotiations without mutual conditions, in an attempt to make any progress in the troubled talks.
In conjunction with this, Axios reported that the Israeli negotiating team recommended that Netanyahu proceed with the negotiations, noting that there is an opportunity to reach an agreement. andIt was quoted by a minister in the Israeli government, who did not name him, as saying that Netanyahu is interested in making every effort to reach a deal.
The Israeli Channel 12 spoke about the Israeli occupation army’s willingness to stop the “Gideon” military operation in the Gaza Strip if it turns out that it may disrupt negotiations.
Trump and the deal
On the other hand, US President Donald Trump said on Friday, thatHe does not know if Netanyahu is able to sign a deal to exchange and direct the prisoners, and he will discover that very soon, andHe added that the Israeli prisoners in Gaza are not in a good situation, and some of them are in a better position than others, He emphasized that he is working with the Israelis to release them.
In other statements to Fox News, Trump said Gaza should become a freedom area, and that the situation in it was bad for years.
Trump added that he spoke with the leaders of the three Gulf countries that he visited recently (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates), and said that they would be part of the solution about Gaza, and that they would help in this matter.
He explained that one of the three leaders asked him two nights to help the Palestinian people because he was starving, and that he answered that the United States began working to help people there.
Israel appreciates the presence of 58 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, including 20 neighborhoods, andThe occupation army intensified during the past four days of the pair of its bombing, in conjunction with the negotiating delegation to Doha and Trump’s visit to the region.
In early March, the first phase of a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel ended on January 19, with Egyptian -American mediation and American support. Netanyahu dismissed the start of the second phase of the agreement and resumed the genocide in the Strip on March 18.
With an American support, Israel has committed, since October 7, 2023, genocide crimes in Gaza, which left about 173,000 martyrs and wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
