Hamas said on Thursday that he was ready to release Israeli hostages this weekend, as established by the Gaza fire agreement, after the fragile agreement was at the top this week, pushing more pessimism on his future.
Mahmoud Mardowi, a Hamas official, said in a text message that the exchange of hostages for prisoners was destined to go on on Saturday until Israel confirmed its end of the agreement. He said the mediators had told Hamas that Israel said he was busy in the agreement.
Israel did not immediately comment on this and other statements by Hamas who described diplomatic progress. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, consulted himself with the security garments in the south of Israel on Thursday afternoon, said his office.
Egypt and Qatar, next to the United States, interrupted the ceased the fire destined to end over a devastating year of war. During the first six weeks of respite, Hamas agreed to release at least 33 hostages in exchange for over 1,500 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. At least 21 hostages and 766 Palestinian prisoners have been freed since the agreement entered into force at the end of January.
But this week, Hamas has announced that the next hostage release to protest against what he described as Israeli violations of the conditions of the truce would have suspended indefinitely. Netanyahu therefore threatened that, unless the hostages had been released at noon on Saturday, Israel would resume his military campaign “until Hamas is definitively defeated”.
President Trump added a further complication asking for all the remaining hostages to be freed by Saturday or “all hells are about to burst”. That message seemed to contradict the ceased agreement that Mr. Trump’s correspondent had contributed to broker, which establishes a gradual release of hostages for the Palestinian prisoners.
The mediators between the two parts were following “to remove the obstacles and close gaps” after recent “positive” interviews with high Egypt and Qatar officials, Hamas said in a declaration issued on Thursday. Hamas said that Israeli forces repeatedly opened fire on the Palestinians during the truce and did not allow prefabricated houses and heavy machinery to enter Gaza, in violation of the terms of the agreement.
Thursday, Omer Dostri, spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu, said in a declaration that Israel does not allow prefabricated houses or equipment for heavy constructions, without explaining logic. He didn’t say if this could change.
At least 60,000 prefabricated housing units and 200,000 curtains should be delivered to Gaza during the first phase of the agreement, in addition to the equipment for the authorization of the rubble, according to a copy of the text of the agreement seen by the New York Times. Hamas complained that only a small number of minimums of 200,000 curtains arrived in Gaza.
Three Israeli officials and two mediators, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a delicate question, said this week that Hamas’ statements on not receiving enough curtains were accurate. But Cogat, the Israeli military unit that supervises help of help, said in a written response that Hamas’ accusations were “completely false”.
Although the current road blocks are outdated, however, the future of the truce and for how long it would still be far from certain. The first phase will expire at the beginning of March and Israel and Hamas have yet to agree on the terms to extend the agreement.
Israel and Hamas should have started the indirect interviews on the second phase of the agreement last week, which would include the end of the war and the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza. But Thursday, Dostri said that Israel “currently did not conduct negotiations on the second phase of the agreement”.
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian militants launched an attack on Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed and 250 took out hostage, mainly civilians. The Israeli campaign in Gaza killed over 48,000 people in the Palestinian encycling, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and fighters.
By underlining the fragility of the current truce, a rocket from Gaza was launched before falling back into the enclave, the Israeli military said on Thursday. Hamas did not comment, but his bullets sometimes hired accidentally in Gaza, causing victims. The Israeli forces later hit the launchers, said the military.
Despite the stall, the fragile ceased the fire was still in possession and some curtains and other humanitarian aid entered Gaza. The United Nations Rescue Agency declared in a declaration of Wednesday that 801 trucks entered Gaza that day to “seize every opportunity offered by the ceased to increase” assistance.
But the emergency coordinator in Gaza for the doctors of the help agency without borders warned that humanitarian deliveries were not happening quite quickly and that “people are still lacking in basic objects”.
“We are not yet seeing the massive downsizing of the humanitarian aid necessary for northern Gaza”, wrote the emergency coordinator, Caroline Seguin, in an expedition from the territory that was published online on Wednesday.
The recent ideas of Mr. Trump for the future of the Middle East have reverberated throughout the region. Last week, he repeatedly said that the United States should take Gaza, transform it into the “Riviera del Middle East” and not allow the displaced Palestinians to return to the territory once it has been reconstructed.
The Palestinians, other Arabs and many field experts rejected Mr. Trump’s proposal as ethnic cleaning. Any move of the genre for emptiness Gaza would most likely prevent any future possibility of a Palestinian state there.
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