The Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting tonight with ministers and the negotiating team charged with concluding a prisoner exchange deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, to discuss opportunities to revive the exchange deal negotiations.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that there is progress in the exchange negotiations, but it does not constitute a breakthrough, and that the point related to ending the war remains the main obstacle in the negotiations.
Israeli media said that estimates in Israel indicate that the number of living prisoners is less than half of the prisoners, and that the Israeli army confirms that the time is very appropriate to take advantage of the achievements it has achieved and conclude an exchange deal.
The sources added that the representative of the prisoners in the army informed the political leadership that estimates indicate that the condition of the abductees is deteriorating and that they are starving, and that some of them face the risk of death.
For its part, Israeli Channel 12 said that the security establishment warned the government that dismantling Hamas would lead to the collapse of the regime capable of releasing prisoners.
While Axios quoted sources as saying that the Israeli envoy will go to the United States to hold talks with the administration of US President Joe Biden and Trump’s advisors on issues including the war in Gaza and the exchange deal, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the US administration is working effectively with key parties. In the region in order to reach a ceasefire and release prisoners in Gaza.
Sullivan stressed that reaching an agreement has become more likely now due to the isolation suffered by the Hamas movement and Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the battle.
Israel estimates that there are 101 prisoners being held in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas announced that dozens of prisoners were killed in random Israeli raids.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 149,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters. In the world.
