The head of Hamas's political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, announced on Monday evening to the Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed Al Thani, and the head of Egyptian intelligence Abbas Kamel that his organization agrees to the outline proposed to him for a ceasefire with Israel, as part of the talks for the release of the abductees.
According to sources in the organization, Hamas received guarantees from both the United States and the mediators Egypt and Qatar that Israel would not resume fighting in the Gaza Strip at the end of the implementation of the deal. She already answered in the affirmative.
* Hamas will release 33 hostages alive or dead in the first phase of the deal, without committing to the number of lives.
* Israel will not be able to veto the identity of the Palestinian prisoners to be released, including murderers of Israelis.
* Israel will withdraw from central axes in the Gaza Strip and allow freedom of movement between the south and the north without inspection.
* There is no unequivocal determination according to which there will be a complete ceasefire in the Strip.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office stated that "even though the Hamas proposal is far from Israel's necessary requirements, a delegation will go to the negotiations in Egypt to exhaust every possibility to reach an agreement under conditions acceptable to Israel." It was also stated that the War Cabinet unanimously decided that Israel will continue preparations for a ground operation in Rafah To exert military pressure on Hamas, "in order to promote the release of our hostages and the other goals of the war."
The foreign source privy to the talks said that "Since yesterday, the head of the CIA William Burns and the Prime Minister of Qatar Al Thani have met several times, and in their talks a new formula was found based on the proposal (which Israel approved, 11) - and it is this that enabled the breakthrough to the positive answer from Hamas Another foreign diplomat who knows the outline well said: "The ball is now in Netanyahu's hands."
Sources involved in the talks between the parties pointed out some problematic points for Israel in the proposal. For example, Israel demanded that Hamas release 33 live hostages in the first phase of the deal, but the outline that Hamas is now proposing includes the release of 33 hostages "living or dead", without reference to the exact number of live hostages that will be returned as part of this phase. In addition, Israel demanded that Hamas release three abductees every three days, while the organization proposes to release three abductees every week.
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