Gaza call: Multi -year ceasefire on the table?
An anonymous and high-ranking Hamas representative tells AFP that the Islamist movement has sent a delegation to Cairo.
– The delegation will meet Egyptian representatives to discuss new ideas aimed at reaching a ceasefire, says the person.
Hamas said no to a bid from Israel last week and then pointed out requirements that the movement would be completely disarmed without giving it sufficient guarantees that Israel’s warfare would be interrupted.
An Israeli delegation Traveled to Cairo on Sunday evening, Qataric media reported then.
An anonymous Palestinian source with transparency in the negotiation situation tells the British BBC that the Egyptian and Qataric mediators have presented a new framework. It stands out a road against a ceasefire that will be for five to seven years, where all the hostages held in Gaza is released, where Palestinian prisoners in Israel are also released and where Israel makes a complete military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
This weekend announced Israeli Prime Minister an escalation of the war, with promises that it will not end until Hamas has been annihilated and all hostages have been returned. Critics at home see it as two goals that cannot be combined and large demonstrations were held in Israel over the weekend.
According to the BBC’s report, Hamas has shown signals that it can hand over the board in Gaza to any other Palestinian entity. However, Israel’s Netanyahu has excluded that the Palestinian Authority, which leads self -government on the occupied West Bank, is allowed to join and control.
Behind Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu stands his ultranationalist government partner with sharp demands.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose support Netanyahu needs, said on Monday that he quite correctly questioned the previously agreed ceasefire when he saw it inevitable that Israel would have to « judge, defeat and destroy Hamas, conquer Gaza Strip and introduce military rule » I Gaza.
– I think it’s time to go on the offensive in Gaza. If this does not happen, this government has no existence, the minister said in a television interview, according to reproduction in other Israeli media.
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