The Israeli Walla website quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that it is not possible to reach a ceasefire deal and return the prisoners without obtaining from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) a list of the names of those who are alive.
The website added that Netanyahu said during a meeting that Israel is not succeeding in obtaining names from Hamas, and that he is not ready to conclude a deal without knowing who will return from Gaza.
The Walla website also quoted Israeli officials as saying that there are still large gaps despite some progress being made in Doha.
For its part, the Jerusalem Post newspaper, citing Israeli and American officials, said that the chances of reaching an agreement in Gaza before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump are slim, and that the negotiations have not collapsed, but are stuck.
This comes as Netanyahu continues to call for intensifying military operations as a means to recover prisoners, but he faces increasing criticism from the opposition and families of prisoners who accuse him of obstructing negotiations to maintain the support of his extremist ministers.
Despite what was reported in the media about the imminent conclusion of a ceasefire agreement between the resistance factions and the occupation army, the negotiating path faltered.
For its part, the Hamas movement said in a statement that it had shown responsibility and flexibility, but the Israeli occupation set new issues and conditions related to withdrawal, ceasefire, prisoners, and the return of the displaced, and this postponed reaching the agreement that was available.
Prisoner exchange negotiations conducted with Qatari, Egyptian and American mediation have faltered more than once, as a result of Netanyahu’s insistence on continuing to control the Philadelphia border axis between Gaza and Egypt, and the Rafah crossing in Gaza, and preventing the return of Palestinian faction fighters to northern Gaza by searching the returnees through the Netzarim axis in the middle of the Strip. And not stopping the war completely.
Tel Aviv holds more than 10,300 Palestinians in its prisons, and Israeli media estimates that there are 100 Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has launched a genocide against Gaza that has resulted in more than 153,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing persons, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters. In the world.