“Until now we have not presented any list,” declared Naim from Istanbul, in a conversation held this Sunday with the British media. He then tried to hold Israel responsible for the issue: “First of all, technically and practically, it is now impossible to know exactly who is still alive and who has died because of the Israeli bombings or who has died of starvation because of the Israeli blockade,” he said. he.
The war began with the raid in which the militants entered Israeli territory, where they massacred more than a thousand civilians and kidnapped more than 200, in the largest anti-Semitic attack in a single day since the Holocaust. The kibbutzim near the border with the Gaza Strip were also razed and in many cases completely destroyed.
However, the Palestinian politician considers that the responsibility for not knowing the fate of the people kidnapped by the jihadists lies with the government and the Israeli Army, which has counterattacked until reaching various objectives in the Gaza Strip. There he intends to reach the refuge of Yahya Sinwar, military leader of the group and mastermind of the October 7 attacks.
Sinwar cut off his contacts
Egyptian and Qatari negotiators are failing to contact Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, whose approval of the deal is critical to its implementation, The Wall Street Journal said.
For this reason, an anonymous Hamas official told the American newspaper that it seems unlikely that it will be achieved before the scheduled start of Ramadan, on March 10, and that, instead, it could take place on the first weekend of the Muslim holy month.
Sinwar, the alleged mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attacks, is believed to be hiding in the warren of tunnels beneath Khan Younis, the southern Gaza town where he was born in 1962. U.S. officials said they agree with the Israeli assessment that Sinwar is hiding somewhere beneath his hometown and has surrounded himself with hostages, an ultimate insurance policy.
Arrangements in Cairo and Washington
The Qatari Prime Minister, Mohamed bin Abderrahman Al Thani, arrived in Washington this Monday and will meet with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, amid mediators’ efforts to achieve a truce in Gaza before the start of Ramadan, scheduled for next March 11th.
The also head of Qatari diplomacy “leads the Qatari delegation for the sixth round of the Qatar-US Strategic Dialogue, which will be held tomorrow,” said the spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majed al Ansari, in his X account in the early hours of the morning. .
He added that he will meet with Blinken and both will inaugurate this dialogue, which will include twelve sessions in various areas of bilateral cooperation.
In parallel, US Vice President Kamala Harris will meet this Monday at the White House with Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz, a meeting in which she will reiterate the United States’ position of implementing the temporary ceasefire to bring more aid. humanitarian aid to Gaza and free the hostages.
Gantz, Netanyahu’s centrist political rival, visits Washington in defiance of the Israeli prime minister. This week he will meet with several senior Biden administration officials, including Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken himself and Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser. President Joe Biden is at Camp David, the presidential retreat outside Washington, until Tuesday.
An official from Netanyahu’s far-right Likud party said Gantz did not have the prime minister’s approval for his meetings in Washington and that Netanyahu gave the Cabinet official a “tough talk,” underscoring the widening rift within the leadership of Netanyahu. Israel war almost six months after the Israel-Hamas war.
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