Israel says it is unclear whether there is a “common basis for negotiating”.
The conversations began in Egypt for the second phase of the trial of Israel-Ham in Gaza, whose first phase ends on Saturday.
Officers from Israel Joined the catarrh mediators and the United States in Cairo on Thursday for “Intensive Discussions,” the State Information Service in Egypt said.
US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, can join conversations.
The interviews on the second phase of the tribute are intended for the negotiation of the complete end of the war, including the return of all the remaining living prisoners in Gaza and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territory.
According to Israel, there are 59 prisoners left in Gaza, 24 of whom still believe they are alive.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said that the government is not sure of the prospect of reaching the agreement, adding that the Israeli team in Cairo will have to “see if we have a common basis for negotiations.”
“We said we were willing to expand the frame [of phase one] In return to publish more hostages, “Sa’ar said at a press conference on Thursday.” If possible, we’ll do it. “
It remains to be seen whether the agreement can reconcile with regard to the proclaimed war goals of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, with US President Donald Trump, has committed to remove Hamas.
“Israel has been telling us for months, in words and deed, that he does not really intend to end the war,” Mohamad Elmary, a political analyst from the Institute for the Graduate Study of Doha, told Al Jazeera.
“The ban on Hamas by leaving Gaza, which will not happen, Israel is completely intention, I think I’m going back to war.”
Hamas says Israel ‘plans to escalate again’
Negotiations come after Hamas handed over four captives on Thursday overnight, in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, in the last planned replacement of the first phase of the tribute.
Israel delayed the release of 46 of these prisoners, all women and children, due to the delay in the check of the bodies of four prisoners he received.
Further violating the terms of the agreement, Israeli officials said they would not withdraw as planned from Philadelphi Horidor – A long lane of land bordering Egypt. The Israeli army should start pulling out of the hall on Saturday and ending up within eight days.
Hamas’s official base Naim told Al Jazeera to believe that Israel was “planning to escalate again”, despite Hamas “committed an agreement”.
“We have already performed our duties under the agreement and we are ready to continue the agreement,” Naim said, adding that the group should be actively involved in the second phase negotiations.
A truce, which started on January 19thHe stopped the 15 months of the war that broke out after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. On southern Israel, who died about 1,100 people and took more than 200 captured.
The Israeli war in Gaza has since killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials, at the same time displacing more than 90 percent of the enclave population and destroyed most of Gaza’s belt.
