The negotiators of the Hamas terrorist group at meetings in Cairo announced their readiness to soften their position and abandon a number of conditions that led to the disruption of negotiations in the doha about the release of hostages last month.
This was reported by The Times of Israel an Israeli official and Arab diplomat familiar with the situation.
Arab intermediaries handed over to Israel a signal about such changes, but in Jerusalem they replied that they were not interested in the next partial ceasefire. According to the Israeli official, the plan to capture the city of gas can be canceled only if Hamas agrees to all conditions at the end of the war. These conditions include the release of all 50 hostages, a complete disarmament of the group and the demilitarization of the gas sector.
Disagreements remain significant, especially in the issue of disarmament. Arab intermediaries consider this item “poisoned pill”, which will actually break the process, since the execution will require large -scale military operations of Israel. Instead, they offer a gradual approach similar to the Lebanese model with the involvement of the Arab troops at the invitation of the Palestinian administration. However, Israel insists that Pa should not play any role in the management of gas, which complicates the implementation of this initiative.
Despite the position of Jerusalem, Egypt and Qatar plan to hold new negotiations with Hamas on Saturday to receive a final response to an updated proposal, close to the option, which was previously approved by the United States and Israel. The alleged agreement provides for a 60-day truce, during which 10 living hostages should be released and bodies 18 died in exchange for a certain number of Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli and American negotiators left the Doha last month after Hamas put forward unacceptable conditions for the withdrawal of the IDF troops, the volumes of humanitarian aid and the number of liberated prisoners. Now, if the group agrees to the mitigated version, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be forced to decide whether he is ready to move away from his position on the inadmissibility of partial deals.
Earlier, the “cursor” wrote that Hamas criticized the UN for a report on sexual violence.
