The movement’s undisclosed source, posted on its account on the Telegram site, said: “We have exchanged some ideas with the mediation brothers (Egypt and Qatar) with the aim of stopping the aggression against our Palestinian people. ” He did not divulge further details about those ideas.
On the other hand, the Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad) said that mediators informed the negotiating team of the Hamas movement’s response to the prisoner exchange proposal and that Tel Aviv would examine it, according to a Mossad statement released by the office. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu via X site.
In response, the private Hebrew Channel 12 said, “The broad terms of this agreement were drawn up before the Israeli army took control of the Philadelphia axis in Rafah (southern) and there will be disagreement over the continued presence of the Israeli army on the axis.
The channel quoted an unnamed Israeli political source as saying: “Even if Hamas responds positively to the broad lines, negotiations will take a long time.”
Last week, Netanyahu sparked a political storm and anger among the prisoners’ families when he told his close private Channel 14 that he was open to a partial deal to return some prisoners held in Gaza. After a cease-fire it is necessary to restart the war to complete its objectives.
However, Netanyahu retracted his statements and told the Knesset General Assembly: “We will not stop the war until we return all the abducted and dead, and we are committed to the Israeli proposal welcomed by US President Joe Biden.”
At the end of last May, Biden announced that Israel had submitted a new proposal for a three-phase agreement, the first two phases of which would include a “prisoner exchange”, the second phase would include “sustaining a ceasefire” and “rebuilding Gaza”. In the third phase.
Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel have been holding secret talks for months to reach a second deal since the outbreak of war on October 7, with the mediation of Qatar, Egypt and the United States. 2023, resulting in more than 125,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children, and more than 10,000 killed dozens of children amid massive destruction and famine.
TRT Arabic – Agencies
