Talks continue for a second day in Doha with the aim of concluding a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which will be accompanied by the release of Israeli hostages still held in the enclave.
The spokesman for Qatari diplomacy, Majid al-Ansari, said in the early hours of the morning that efforts by mediators (Qatar, Egypt, the US) were continuing to silence the guns, return the hostages and allow the largest possible amount of humanitarian aid to enter the Gauze.
Against the background of the ongoing negotiations, hundreds of people, mostly relatives of the abductees and their supporters, demonstrated last Thursday night in Tel Aviv.
Participants in a rally and march in the center of the coastal metropolis chanted slogans such as “don’t go back without an agreement,” Israeli media reported.
At the same time, a member of the Hamas politburo, Husham Badran, said after the negotiations in Cairo that “Hamas is monitoring the ongoing negotiations in Doha regarding the ceasefire and the exchange of prisoners from a strategic point of view, which aims to end of the attack on Gaza”.
According to him, “Hamas believes that any negotiation must be based on a clear plan for the implementation of what has been previously agreed upon. The obstacle to achieving a cease-fire in Gaza is continued Israeli evasion. Any agreement must achieve a comprehensive ceasefire, full withdrawal from Gaza, return of displaced persons and rehabilitation, in addition to a prisoner exchange agreement.”
It is worth mentioning that Hamas is not participating with a delegation in the current talks in Doha
Bloody rush of settlers to the West Bank
At the time of the negotiations, Israeli President Isaac Herzog “strongly condemned” a raid by Jewish settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, during which one person was killed and another seriously injured, according to the Palestinian Authority, calling the violent incidents “pogroms”.
“I strongly condemn tonight’s pogrom in Samaria,” Herzog said via X, using the biblical name for the northern part of what is now the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health, the attack, in the community of Jit, between the cities of Nablus and Qalqilya, claimed the life of a man, Mahmoud Kader Sanda, 23, who fell “from settlers’ bullets”. Another Palestinian was hit by a bullet in the chest area and is hospitalized in serious condition, according to the same source.
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