A delegation from Hamas arrived in Cairo to discuss the implementation of the Gaza cease-fire agreement with the mediators, according to a press release from the Palestinian group.
The fragile agreement concluded last month between Hamas and Israel on Wednesday, Hamas saying that it would not bow against the threats of Israel and the United States of renewed fighting and displacement mass of Palestinians.
Egyptian and Qatari mediators worked to recover the agreement, according to the state TV al-Qahera News in Egypt, which is close to the country’s security agencies.
Hamas warned that it would delay the next release of Israeli captives scheduled for Saturday, saying that Israel had violated the truce by pulling people in Gaza and not allowing the agreed number of tents, shelters and other vital aids to enter the territory.
“The profession must implement the terms of the ceasefire agreement until the prisoners are released. The occupation is required to respect the agreed humanitarian protocol, “Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said on Wednesday.
Since the cease-fire came into force on January 19, Israeli fires killed at least 92 Palestinians and injured more than 800 others, Mount Al-Bursh, CEO of the Ministry of Health, said on Tuesday.
In the last violence, a 44 -year -old man was killed and another was injured in an Israeli strike in the southern city of Rafah. The Israeli army said that it only focuses on people who are approaching its strength or enter certain areas in violation of the truce.
Threat of fighting
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the support of President Donald Trump, warned that Israel would take up the fights if the captives are not released on Saturday.
Trump threatened that “all hell” will break out if Hamas does not publish the remaining Israeli captives that were held in Gaza by Saturday.
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz echoed the sentence in a post on X on Wednesday, saying that if Hamas does not release the Israeli captives by Saturday, “the doors of hell will open on them, Just as the American president promised. “
“The new Gaza War will be different from the intensity of that before the ceasefire-and will not end without the defeat of Hamas and the release of all hostages,” he wrote.
Amman’s reports, Jordan, Hamdah Salhut of Tel Aviv Tribune said that the Israeli army had discussed a plan for a renewed offensive.
“However, some sources that spoke on the radio of the Israeli army said that any military action to save the captives of Gaza would be” almost impossible “because Hamas is still very active,” said Salhut.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also weighed on Wednesday, warning that “any overthrow” of the agreement “risks repelling people in misery and despair that have defined the last 16 months”.
To date, at least 48,222 Palestinians have been confirmed throughout the War of Israel in Gaza. At least 1,139 people were killed during the attacks led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, with more than 200 captives.
The enclave remains on the verge of humanitarian disaster, the vast majority of its displaced residents and its infrastructure destroyed throughout the war.
“Palestinians cannot be transferred”
In his post Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Minister Katz also underlined the Trump plan for the United States to “take over” and to move the people of Gaza definitively.
He said that a renewed Israeli offensive “will also make the vision of the American president Trump for Gaza”.
Trump promised to put pressure on Jordan and Egypt to accept the Palestinians moved by force. The two countries refused.
Wednesday, the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and the king of Jordan Abdullah II spoke by phone, stressing the importance of the immediate start of the reconstruction of Gaza “without the transfer of the Palestinian people of their land”, according to a press release of the Egyptian presidency.
The leaders have also “shown their adventure” to work with Trump to reach “permanent peace” in the region through the creation of an independent Palestinian State, according to the press release.
It came a day after Abdullah met Trump in the White House.
Addressing Tel Aviv Tribune on Wednesday, Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi, once again said that the kingdom would not move in his opposition to Trump’s proposal.
“There are fixed and firm Jordanian positions that will not change … Palestinians cannot be transferred to Egypt, Jordan or to any Arab state,” said Safadi.
The Palestinian Authority and the Arab nations were all united in their opposition to Trump’s plan.
On Wednesday, Hamas called for mass demonstrations around the world “against the plans of travel and forced expulsion”.