Hamas informed the mediators that he approved the last proposal for a ceasefire from Gaza and is ready to resume negotiations to discuss the end of the War of Israel against Gaza, which has now killed more than 62,000 Palestinians and threatens an additional mass movement in the middle of the armed famine.
“Hamas, as well as the Palestinian factions, relayed their acceptance of the proposal presented yesterday by Qatari and Egyptian mediators,” said in a brief press release on Monday. The Times of Israel and Channel 12 reported that Israel had received the response from Hamas.
A familiar source with talks told Tel Aviv Tribune that the proposal included a temporary cessation of military operations for 60 days, during which the Israeli army would move to allow the entry of humanitarian aid.
Half of the 50 Israeli captives would be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners within the same period.
The source said that the new proposal “marks the start of the path to a complete solution”.
The announcement of Hamas intervened after the Qatari Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al Thani had interviews with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi in Cairo.
But to judge by the failure of the trajectory of past talks, the announcement does not necessarily mean that the end of the war is imminent.
Over the past two years, Hamas has accepted proposals for ceasefire and the release of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners, only for Israel to reject them and insist to continue the war.
The main bonding point was the duration of the ceasefire. Hamas wants a permanent end of war, but Israel sought a temporary truce which would allow it to resume its campaign of destruction and movement in Gaza after the release of its captives on the territory.
Israel, however, goes ahead with plans to grasp Gaza City, bombing the oldest and prosperous urban center of the enclave, while it plans to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke with the Minister of Defense and the chief of staff to Gaza City plans “and the completion of our missions”. They concluded that “Hamas is under atomic pressure,” he said.
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that Hamas was “willing to discuss an agreement for the release of hostages, only because of its fear that we have to seriously intend to conquer the city of Gaza”.
Far-right Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, expressed his opposition to any cease-fire agreement in Gaza.
“Hamas is undergoing great pressure from the occupation of Gaza because it understands that it eliminates it and ends history,” he said. “Consequently, he tries to stop him by returning to a partial agreement. Precisely for this reason, we must not give in and grant the enemy a life buoy. ”
Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent Hamdah Salhout said that Israeli officials admitted that they did not have enough military combat soldiers for the operation. The army issued repeated calls to conscription in Israel and abroad to increase its ranks.
“They said they were determined to go ahead with the plan, but we don’t know when and we don’t know how,” said Salhout. “They say that (taking Gaza City) will be one of the strategic movements that the Israeli army has made to achieve its strategic objectives.”
New negotiations
The mediators had to announce that an agreement was concluded and set a date of recovery of talks.
The efforts of Qatar and Egypt to rekindle negotiations have so far failed to obtain a lasting cease-fire in the war.
A truce negotiated by Qatari, the Egyptian and the American mediators who entered into force in January were unilaterally broken by Israel in March. Since then, its blockade on aid supplies has caused famine and famine. More than 260 Palestinians died due to the Israeli famine crisis.
The latest series of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, facilitated in Doha by the mediators, lasted several weeks before ending on July 25 without any results.
Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdeatty, visiting Rafah’s border crossing with Gaza on Monday, said that the Prime Minister of Qatar was visiting “to consolidate our existing common efforts in order to apply maximum pressure on both parties to conclude an agreement as soon as possible”.
Alluding to disastrous humanitarian conditions for more than two million people living in the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations agencies and aid groups warned against a humanitarian crisis, Abdeatty stressed the urgency of reaching an agreement.
“The current situation on the ground goes beyond the imagination,” he said.
A statement from the Egyptian presidency said on Monday that El-Sissi and Mohammed “affirmed their rejection of the reappearance of the Gaza Strip and the displacement of the Palestinians” and “stressed the importance of efforts to achieve a cease-fire agreement”.
“Genocides do not end with negotiated solutions”
Commenting on the trip of Qatari Prime Minister to Egypt, Abdullah al-Aarian, an associate professor of history at the University of Georgetown in Qatar, said that it was important to remember that similar negotiations have occurred before, but it was “a lack of Israeli political will” which ultimately blocked them.
Israel “continued to continue this genocide and take it to new horrible and unprecedented levels,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune, adding that there was a lack of international pressure to ensure a cease-fire.
“Historically, genocides do not end with negotiated solutions.
On Monday, the human rights group, Amnesty International on Monday, accused Israel of having adopted a “deliberate policy” of famine in Gaza while the UN and the aid groups continued to warn of famine in the Palestinian enclave.
In a report citing the displaced Palestinians and the medical staff who have dealt with children with malnutrition, Amnesty said: “Israel leads a deliberate famine campaign in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
The UN and the international community condemned Israel for blocked aid by entering the enclave torn by the war.