Since he lowered his clock to the first phase of a frightened fire in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent an Israeli delegation to Cairo on Thursday to hold further conversations on the extension of the tribute.
But although the initial phase of the tribute on Saturday night will pass, it seems that Israel and Hamas have made a little progress in forge a comprehensive break of fire. It was not clear on Thursday whether the Israeli delegation played on time or had a serious mandate for bridging the yawning of the gaps between the two sides.
Insecurity has also left the Israelis and Palestine in the limb on the fate of more hostages and Palestinian prisoners and whether the fight can be restarted soon.
“Our only hope is that the fire interruption continues,” said Smamekh al-Dibs, a 36-year-old who lives in the school counter since his home in northern Gazi was destroyed.
For now, the first six -week phase of a frightened fire that can be concluded without a clear frame that will take its place. This does not necessarily mean the immediate return to the war: the agreement says that the truce can continue as long as the negotiators work on the following steps. But it already makes a fragile job more insecure.
Israeli government officials did not provide details about traveling to the delegation to Cairo, and the extension of the agreement would mean solving a lot of problems with Thornier from hostages and prisoners, such as the constant end of the war and gauze renovation.
According to the terms of the gradual agreement, Israel would effectively declare the end of its war against Hamas to ensure the release of two dozen hostages believed to be still alive.
For the families of Israeli prisoners, the edition of their loved ones is closer than ever before and painfully distant. They are aware that they remain incredible obstacles to ensuring their freedom given the lack of agreement on the future of the agreement.
“By Sunday, we will be in anyone’s country,” said Adi Alexander, whose American-Israeli son, Edan Alexander, was held in Gaza for more than 500 days. “It is deliberately remained cloudy, and it is still blurry,” he said of this element of the fire interruption agreement.
Israel and Hamas did not sign out for the immediate end of the war in mid -January. Instead, they have committed themselves Complex, multi -phase plan It is intended to slowly build a momentum according to comprehensive fire after more than a year of devastating fights in Gaza.
The first phase was intended for stopping the fight, while the two sides threw out a larger settlement.
Hamas released 30 Israeli and foreign hostages and handed over bodies eight more in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians in Israel prison. It was a rocky process, which includes Inscened hostage transmission Israel described it as humiliating and it almost destroyed the whole job.
Israel and Hamas remain as distant as always according to their basic requirements.
Israel vowed that he would not permanently end the war until Hamas no longer controls gauze and territory is not demilitarized. Hamas mainly refused to consider the dissolution of his armed battalions or send his leaders to exile.
Steve Witkoff, an envoy of President Trump in the Middle East, floated with the idea of extending the first phase, continuing to replace hostages for prisoners.
On Thursday, Abdel-Llatif al-Qanou, a spokesman for Hamas, said that the group was open to extending the first phase until it implied to give up on Hamas’ basic demands, including the end of the war and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces. He said Israel pulled his feet in the opening of the negotiations for the second phase.
Mr. Netanyahu is facing great pressure within his own government not to end the war. His political allies say they want to continue to fight the hamas and Build a Jewish settlement in Gaza.
According to the fire interruption agreement, Israel should start withdrawing forces from the border of Gaza with Egypt over the weekend. But Mr. Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Israeli control surpasses as a fundamental security interest.
Both Israel and Hamas have reason to avoid the continuation of the war.
Hamas wants to give his forces the opportunity to recover and start renewing Gaza. Israel wants to bring home the remaining hostage home. Out of about 250 recorded during the Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Israeli government believes that about 25 are still alive. Israel also wants to regain bodies of approximately 30 others.
But the odds of renewed struggles have never disappeared. Many Israelites, especially on the right, say that they cannot end the war with the hamas that still rules Gaza. For now, Hamas seems to have given a little foundation on the matter.
Mr. Alexander, whose son is abducted from the Israeli military service, said he was optimistic that he could hold the truce.
“No one wants this war to be restarted – not Israel, nor the United States. I definitely don’t think Hamas wants it,” he said.
But the Israeli government should “put hostage in advance, let this country be healed and thinking about Hamasa later,” he added.
On the west coast on the west coast, the Palestinians welcomed the prisoners who had liberated Israel as part of the agreement. The results served a lifetime penalty for involvement in planning and conducting militant attacks, including bombing attacks in which Israeli civilians were killed. Many others were detained during the Israeli invasion of Gaza and kept without any formal charges.
Some Palestinians have also been expelled abroad as part of the agreement and are not allowed to return to their homes on the west coast. Their families hope to meet them in Egypt, but at least some say that Israel has not allowed them to leave the West Coast in the meantime.
Alaa Abu Hmeid, whose husband Nasr was sentenced to five living conditions for performing an attack against Israeli during the second intifada, said she tried to travel to Jordan to see her liberated husband, only to turn the Israeli authorities back.
“Their dream of breathing fresh air is finally, at least in part, realizing,” she said. “But we still feel stuck in a recess.”
Fatima Abdulkarim contribute to reporting.
