The latest peace proposal includes only demands from Israel and major changes to President Joe Biden’s proposals, which created doubts in Hamas. One of the different aspects is Israel’s maintenance of two corridors connecting the Gaza strip to Egypt
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived this Tuesday in the Egyptian city of Al Alamein, in the north of the country, to find out the position of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas regarding the peace proposed in Gaza accepted by Israel.
The Egyptian newspaper Al Qahera News, close to the Egyptian secret services, reported the arrival of the Mediterranean resort, where Blinken will meet with the President of Egypt Abdelfatah al-Sisi at the house- his summer residency, before going to Qatar for a meeting with the Egyptian political office. Palestinian Islamists from Hamas.
Egypt and Qatar are the two main mediators for truce in Gaza and Hamas’ communication channels with Israel. Blinken will meet with the leaders of the two countries to put pressure on Hamas to accept the latest proposal by the United States, after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After this meeting, North America announced that the Israeli leader accepted the proposed cease-fire agreement and that hostages were released.
However, the Palestinian movement expressed its objections to the new pledge, as it only includes Israel’s demands, as well as major changes to the proposals submitted by US President Joe Biden from a few months ago, and which Hamas believed it was legitimate to reject Israel before. .
According to a Hamas source quoted by the EFE news agency, the latest truce proposal does not deal with the withdrawal from Gaza in its entirety, or the two corridors in which Israel currently occupies, Netzarim (which dividing the Stri in two) and Philadelphia, which connects Gaza to Egypt.
The latter is certainly one of the points that also pits Israel and Egypt against each other, as the Jewish State defends – according to the latest proposal – maintaining a reduced presence in the this passage, while Cairo intends to withdraw completely.
Blinken’s visit comes in a week when peace talks are expected to begin, and the meetings that began last week in Doha, in which the United States submitted a proposal “the gaps that to close it already” to reach a cease-fire will continue.
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas was triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist group on Israeli soil, on October 7, 2023, which resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths and over two hundred hostages, which according to Israeli authorities.
After the attack by Hamas, Israel launched a massive offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has already resulted in more than 40,000 deaths, mostly civilians, and a humanitarian disaster, devastating the Middle East region. all of it.
