Israel announced on Thursday that he was sending negotiators to Cairo for talks, wanting to extend the first phase of the tribute due to the expiration in two days, in the apparent goal of ensuring more hostages release, delaying any final gauze agreement.
The announcement followed after Hamas handed over four hostages, and the last should be released under the conditions of the six -week first phase of the trial that began on January 19. The conversations have yet to start in the second phase that would ultimately lead to the end of the war.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told reporters in Jerusalem that the delegation would travel to Egypt to see if there was a common basis for negotiating an extension of the ceasefire.
“We said we were ready to make the frame longer in return to release more hostages. If possible, we’ll do it.”
Two government officials told Reuters that Israel wanted to extend the initial phase, and Hamas released three hostages each week in exchange for Palestine held by Israel.
The folk sides did not write what would happen after Saturday if the first phase of the tribute expires without an agreement. Egypt and Qatar mediate between Israel and Hamas, with the support of the United States.
The initial phase of the tribute included a handover of 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons. The fighting stopped, and the Israeli troops withdrew from some positions in Gaza.
Less than half of the remaining hostages believed to be alive
Conversations in the second phase, intended to ensure the release of the remaining hostages and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, were supposed to start at the beginning of this month.
The Israeli government faces the public pressure to adhere to the ceasefire to release the remaining hostages, while some want to return to war within the right -wing government to fulfill their goal of eradicating the ham.
Israel said that three of the four soils, whose bodies were handed overnight, were killed in captivity overnight, and the fourth was killed on the day they were trapped during a raid under the guidance of Hamas, which encouraged the war.
Israeli and Hamas officials say that Egyptian mediators have solved the latest deviation due to the exchange of prisoners and hostages. The resolution in the fire interruption agreement appeared on the same day when the funeral of the Young Bibas family after the handover of their bodies last week.
The strong state of hostages dedicated in recent weeks, including some who have appeared swollen, and others Israel says they were killed by their kidnappers, including a child, enhanced Israeli public anger, which potentially influenced conversations to expand the truce.
Hamas said on Thursday that he was ready to start talking in the second phase and that the only way to be left hostage in Gaza was released is a dedication to the tribute.
Israeli authorities believe that there are fewer than half of 59 hostages still held in Gaza still live.
Israeli troops ordered to stay in a strategic corridor
Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen told public television television Kan that Israel demanded that a military stay in the Philadelphy Corridor, which with Egypt, passes the length of the southern border of Gaza.
Israeli troops should start to withdraw from the Gazipti border area on Saturday, when the first phase is a ceasefire.
Cohen said Israel was now in a stronger position to negotiate than he had been on the eve of the certificate because it was full of support for US administration by President Donald Trump, who started delivering heavy bombs this month.
The last four hostages in the first phase of the contract were handed over in return for 643 Palestinians or were closed by Israeli forces in Gaza or in a prison in Israel. The bodies were returned without a public depiction of the coffins before the crowds in Gaza, after such representations were angry with Israel.
In the post on X, President Isaac Herzog confirmed that the bodies of Tsachi Idan, Itzhak Elgarat, Ohad Yahalomi and Shlomo Mantzur, were all abducted during October 7, 2023.
Hamas took 251 hostages and killed about 1,200 people in an attack on the southern Israeli community, according to Israel. About half of the hostages were released during the only previous truce of the war in November 2023, and others recovered alive or dead during the war.
More than 48,000 Palestinians were killed in an attack by Israel on Gaza, Palestinian authorities say. The war laid waste in a crowded coastal enclave and repeatedly displaced most of its population.
In the meantime, in northern Israel, Israeli police said the driver allegedly inserted his car into the people at the bus stop, wounding at least eight on Thursday in what the authorities think it was a militant attack.
Police said they “neutralized” the suspect, described by the 53-year-old Palestinians from the northern west coast that lived in Israel and was married to an Israeli citizen.
Medical workers said the drilling was injured at least eight people, two in serious condition, which they evacuated to the hospital.
