Just a change in the demands of the Islamist group Hamas regarding a possible truce in Gaza will allow negotiations to advance, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office reported this Wednesday. Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Israel did not receive any new proposal from Hamas in Cairo regarding the release of our hostages”This presidential department said today in a statement after Egyptian sources confirmed to EFE the absence of an Israeli delegation in the negotiations, which continue today in the Egyptian capital.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that Israel will not give in to Hamas’s delusional demands”he added.
Yesterday, the heads of the CIA, Mossad and the intelligence services of Qatar and Egypt met under strict secrecy, in conversations that were “fruitful” and developed in a “positive” manner, according to the same sources.
But one of the main obstacles remains the number of prisoners that Hamas asks Israel to release from its jails, in principle more than a thousand, in exchange for the 134 hostages, at least thirty of them dead.
Representatives of the relatives of those kidnapped announced protests tomorrow in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, considering the lack of Israeli cooperation as a “death sentence” for their loved ones, as they denounced today in a statement.
On Monday, two Israelis of Argentine origin were rescued in the first successful military operation, with heavy artillery and bombing in Rafahsouth of the Strip, in which a hundred Gazans also perished, according to medical sources.
In total, some 28,500 Gazans have been killed since the offensive began last October and 68,000 have been wounded, mostly women and children, while some 8,000 bodies remain under the rubble, according to figures from the Gazan Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas. EFE (I)
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