For Israel, Hamas’ conditions for the ceasefire are “unacceptable. But a delegation flies to Cairo for talks

Israel continues to define the proposed agreement that received the approval of Hamas as “unacceptable”. Yet, some small progress could be made in the negotiations between the armed Palestinian party and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Tel Aviv’s decision to bring tanks to the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, just outside […]

Israel continues to define “unacceptable” the proposed agreement that received the approval of Hamas. Yet, some small progress has been made in the negotiations between the armed Palestinian party and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu it might come. The decision of Tel Aviv to bring the tanks into the Palestinian part of Rafah crossingat the gates of the city, certainly does not contribute to détente, but fromJewish state‘ they however let it be known that some of their delegates will be going to Cairowhere negotiations between Hamas and mediators resumed on Tuesday Egypt And Qatar to try to come to a meeting point that will put an end to the massacre of Gaza. Also because Hamas threatens by saying that the meetings in Egypt are the “last chance” for Israel to recover the hostages.

Tel Aviv, according to what an Israeli source quoted by the media reports, tends to keep enthusiasm at bay, explaining that the trip to the Egyptian capital has for the moment the sole purpose of making “an assessment of Hamas’s ability to change its positions”. An Israeli source quoted by the media said this. Already yesterday the war cabinet had defined the Islamic faction’s proposed agreement as “far from the necessary requirements for Israel”.

But now there is also criticism from Netanyahu’s executive for how his US ally is managing the talks, after the decision to Washington to stop the export of ammunition towards Israel. Other officials say the Biden administration was aware of the latest proposed hostage deal and ceasefire negotiated by Egypt and Qatar with Hamas, but did not inform Israel before the Palestinian party announced it had accepted it. A way, they suspect, of forcing Tel Aviv’s position and forcing it to accept the agreement. A senior US official, however, denied ad Axios that this was a truthful reconstruction saying that “American diplomats have been engaged with their Israeli counterparts”.

Israel’s military move to bring its tanks to the gates of Rafah, according to some to put pressure on Hamas to accept the conditions dictated by Tel Aviv, has certainly not contributed to a rapprochement between the parties. “The occupation of Rafah confirms the intention of the Israeli occupation to interrupt mediation efforts for the cease-fire and the release of prisoners, in the personal interest of Netanyahu and his extremist government – ​​the armed Palestinian party said on Telegram – We ask the US administration and the international community to put pressure on the occupation to stop this escalation which threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians in Rafah and the entire Gaza Strip.”