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- Israel: «Agreement only if Hamas releases at least 33 hostages»
- Egypt proposes to release 33 hostages, the only ones still alive
Israel: «Agreement only if Hamas releases at least 33 hostages»
Israel will accept an agreement that provides for the release of at least 33 hostages, including women, the elderly and the wounded. This was reported by a senior Israeli official to the media at the end of the talks between Israel and the Egyptian delegation. “We will not allow Hamas to talk about 20 hostages as it did” previously, the source stressed to Channel 12. The official then added that the Jewish State is willing to make important concessions such as the return of the Palestinians to northern Gaza and the withdrawal of the army from the Netzarim Corridor which cuts the Strip in two
Egypt proposes to release 33 hostages, the only ones still alive
«There is an attempt by Cairo to restart talks with an Egyptian proposal that would involve the release of 33 hostages, including women, elderly and sick people». An Israeli official said this to the Jerusalem Postregarding the Egyptian delegation that met with Israeli mediators to discuss the hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza. According to the Israeli website, Israeli intelligence officials believe that only 33 abductees are still alive, out of a total of 133 still held by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups in the Strip.
Egypt intelligence chief in Israel for negotiations
Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel heads to Israel today at the head of a delegation from Cairo to continue talks aimed at reaching a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an agreement on the release of hostages.
The Qatari newspaper Al-Arabi Al-Jadid writes this, explaining that Kamel will meet the head of the Mossad David Barnea and the national security advisor Tzachi Hanegbi during the visit.
Cairo is working to secure a deal that would prevent an Israeli operation in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, according to an Egyptian official quoted by the newspaper.
Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon
Intense and prolonged Israeli bombings have occurred in the last few hours in southern Lebanon, in the Shebaa Farms sector, in the eastern part of the war front between Hezbollah and Israel. Lebanese media reported this, reporting several damaged homes in the Shebaa region. No victims have been reported at the moment.
Blinken on Tuesday in Israel
Antony Blinken should go in Israel Tuesday. This was reported by the Israeli broadcaster Kan, adding that the US Secretary of State should discuss the imminent IDF operation in Rafah and the negotiations to suspend the fighting and free over 100 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since 7 October. It would be Blinken’s seventh trip to the region since the war broke out in Gaza.
Israeli civilian killed in Hezbollah raid
An Israeli civilian was killed in the last few hours in a Hezbollah artillery raid in the area of Shebaa Farms (Mount Dov). This was reported by Lebanese and regional media according to which Suad Sharif, a Bedouin from the Sallama community near Lake Tiberias, died after the truck he was driving was hit by an anti-tank rocket fired by Lebanese fighters. The man worked as a worker in the border area of Shebaa Farms, which has been involved on the front line in the daily exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel for more than six months.
Israel tightens the timing of the attack on Rafah and amass dozens of tanks and armored vehicles along the southern border with Gazaat the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing.
The hostage agreement is now being mediatedEgypt which, according to Israeli officials, fears Palestinian “war refugees” who might enter Sinai following the assault on Rafah, and is therefore in a hurry to propose an agreement to Hamas.
Meanwhile the Yemeni group Houthissupported by Iran, claimed to have targeted the Israeli ship MSC Darwin in the Gulf of Aden, hitting it with naval missiles and drones.”
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