Following the announcement by the Israeli military cabinet that will seek to resume peace talks in the Gaza StripNegotiators are scheduled to meet again today in Cairo after talks were frozen in early May.
Closetformed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the leader of the opposition National Unity Party Benny Gantz, said early this Thursday morning that it had ordered the negotiating team to resume its work. work that was stopped on May 9 after an attempted agreement was rejected by Israel.
The launch of the Israeli military operation in Rafah a few days earlier further cooled the mood. Hamas then accused Israel of returning to negotiations.”To the starting point“While Israeli officials noted that the Islamists changed significant provisions of the proposed agreement after they accepted it.
Egyptian security sources told EFE today that the indirect dialogue, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the US, “will be resumed“from the point he was at when he became paralyzed, on the 9th, and “he won’t start from the beginning.”
35,800 people died in the Gaza Strip.
This Thursday, Ministry of Health GazaHamas-controlled Palestine reported 91 deaths in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths since the start of the war in the devastated Palestinian enclave to 35 800.
It is estimated that some 10,000 corpses missing people are still buried under the rubble of the Strip.
Israeli troops Today they have advanced further to Rafah.in the far south of the Gaza Strip, killing several suspected Hamas militants in hand-to-hand combat as the army continues to carry out air strikes across much of the enclave.
Israel’s military operation in the city, which began on May 6, caused great controversy as it housed more than 1.4 million displaced people who were ordered to evacuate again with no place of safety.
In accordance with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), more 800,000 inhabitants of Gaza have already reached the beaches of Al Mawasi, where the army recommended run civilians shortly before the start of the offensive.
Although the armed forces identified him as “safe zone“This is a coastal area where thousands of people were already living in temporary tents, without water or sewerage.
New hopes
Shortly after the Israeli military issued its first order to evacuate Rafah earlier this month, Hamas announced it had accepted truce proposal and hostage releaseadvancing negotiations in Cairo and renewing hopes of reaching an agreement that had already seemed impossible.
However, Israel then assured that the proposal accepted by Hamas differed from the one it had previously agreed with the negotiators, and accused the Islamists of change important issues.
A senior Egyptian source quoted by state-run Al Qahera News said today that Israel has not yet developed a convincing position to move towards a ceasefire agreement in the Palestinian enclave or an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, and that the country“unable” to reach a ceasefire agreement.
Belonging 253 abducted On October 7 they remain in the enclave. 124 prisonersIsrael says 40 of them are dead, and Hamas says more than 70, while four more have been held hostage for years, two of them dead.
Since the beginning of the war, Israel and Hamas have only reached a ceasefire agreement. one week in late November, allowing the release of 105 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
Additionally, Hamas released four hostages in October; three were rescued by the army – two of them a few weeks ago during a military operation in Rafah; The bodies of 17 hostages were discovered, three of whom were killed by Israeli soldiers by mistake.