Netanyahu accepts US plan for ceasefire-Diepresse.com
The proposal of the US-Naie-East envoy Steve Witkoff provides for a 60-day ceasefire, a hostage clearance in two steps and auxiliary deliveries about the UN.
According to media reports, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts the proposal for a ceasefire from Steve Witkoff. Netanyahu explained this at a meeting with relatives of the hostages captured in the Gaza Strip, it said. Previously, the radical-Islamic Hamas had announced that he had received Witkoff’s plan. He is now being checked.
Witkoff’s proposal provides for a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza War. According to this, ten hostages recorded in the Gaza Strip should be released in two steps within a week, it said in several reports. In addition, the corpses of 18 deported should be handed over. In return, Palestinian prisoners should be released again.
According to reports, discussions are to be held over an end to the Gaza War during the two-month ceasefire. In the event of an agreement between Israel and Islamist Hamas, the remaining hostages and the remains of deported people should be handed over.
Aid deliveries again via UN and troop deduction
The proposal also provides that the aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip are again adopted by the United Nations and the International Aid Organizations. The Israeli army should withdraw to the positions before the start of the youngest offensive in March, as it was said.
According to Israeli information, there are currently at least 20 living hostages in the Gaza Strip. With three other kidnapped people, it is unclear whether they are still alive. In addition, the remains of 35 abducted areas are located in the sealed area with countless underground tunnel systems.
Witkoff had optimistic about a possible ceasefire in the Gaza War on Wednesday in the White House. He has « very good feelings » about a break of fire and a long -term peaceful solution to the conflict, he said to journalists.
(APA/Reuters/dpa)
