Israeli-Palestinian conflict
May 18, 2024
4.17pm
Israeli TV Kan 11 reported that indirect negotiations for the release of the hostages have been suspended. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is expected in Tel Aviv tomorrow.
According to what Haaretz reports, the negotiations indirect between Israel And Hamas for the release of the hostages they are “at a dead end and there is no progress”.
According to sources involved in the cconversation also cited by the Israeli TV Kan 11, the mediators of Egypt and Qatar have verified that the positions of the Palestinian organization and the Tel Aviv government do not allow an agreement to be reached.
Hamas would like this as its main condition cessation of the war in exchange for release of the hostagesbut it is precisely on the definition of “end of the war” that no agreement can be reached, as well as on the Israeli request for veto power over the names of terrorists that Hamas will ask them to come released.
The Arab League’s proposal: UN peacekeeping in Gaza until a “two peoples, two states” solution
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz is however expected to speak at a press conference this evening at 8.30pm (7.30pm in Italy). The website Axios reported this according to which “Gantz will give a ultimatum to Prime Minister Netanyahu on war strategy“.
Meanwhile, the White House National Security Advisor is expected in Israel tomorrow, May 19th. Jake Sullivanwho is in Saudi Arabia today for talks with the heir to the throne Mohammed bin Salman.
On the conflict front, theIdf he hit over one seventy objectives in the Gaza Strip, while ground forces operate in Rafah, Jabaliya and the Netzarim corridor. Furthermore, Israeli fighter jets hit a rocket launcher and buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, in the cities of Kounine and Khiam, during the night, the army said.
And at least 650 thousand people would have fled from Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, after the intensification of Israeli military action. Louise Wateridge, press officer for UNRWA (the United Nations Agency for the Relief and Employment of Palestinian Refugees in the Near East), reported this in a post on her profile extent of displacement. “Improvised shelters piled up along the beach and up to the shoreline as desperate families try to find space to survive,” Wateridge wrote in the tweet.
