Hamas reports “No Progress” in the second phase of interrupting fire in indirect conversations with Israel
The last round of the interview on the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has not achieved progress so far, and it was not clear whether the conversations would continue on Saturday, said Hamas’ senior official.
The first phase of the ceasefire, which paused for 15 months of fighting in Gaza’s belt, recorded the release of 33 hostages, including eight bodies, in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
The first phase expires on Saturday, but under the terms of the agreement, the fighting is not continued while during the second phase negotiations, which could end the war in Gaza and see how the residual hedges returned home.
Officers of Israel, Qatar, Egypt and the United States were involved in the second phase negotiations in Cairo, with the aim of ending the war with the return of all the remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
Hamas did not attend conversations, but its position was represented through Egyptian and Qatar’s mediators. Basem Naim, a member of the Hamas political office, said Associated Press that there was no “progress” in finding a solution before the Israeli negotiators returned home on Friday.
It was unclear whether these intermediaries would return to Cairo to continue the conversations on Saturday as expected, and Naim said that “no idea” when the negotiations could start again.
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.
Hamas began the war with its October 7 October 2023, a attack that left 1,200 dead in Israel. Since then, the Israel’s military offensive has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to health officers in Gaza, who are no different civil and combat death, but say that more than half of the dead were women and children.
Two sides agreed in a three -phase agreement on the termination of fire in January, with the aim of ending the war.
On Friday, Hamas said that “re -confirm his complete commitment to the implementation of all the terms of the agreement at all stages and details” and urged the international community to press Israel to “continue to another phase without any delay or evasion”.
In addition to the second phase of the tribute, the Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that intermediaries in conversations “also discussed ways to improve the Humanitarian aid in Gaza’s belt, as part of the effort to relieve population suffering and support for stability in the region.
Hamas rejected the Israeli proposal to extend the first phase of a 42 -day ceasefire, saying that it was going against the tribute agreement, according to a member of the group who requested anonymity to discuss the negotiations of closed doors.
The Israeli proposal calls for an extension of the tribute through the Muslim Saint Ramadan, which began on Saturday, in exchange for additional hostage exchange, said a member of Hamas.
The UN Food Food Agency, the World Food Program, posted on Saturday in a post on social networks that it reached a million Palestinians throughout the Gaza during the first phase.
The break in the fight was helped by “renewal of distribution points, re -opening a bakery and expanding financial aid,” the agency said.
“The consent of the fire must be kept,” it was said. “Can’t come back.”
