Extremely laborious, and perhaps unsuccessful, attempts to temporarily stop the war in the Middle East. According to some media, Hamas has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by Israel. Shortly before, a member of the Palestinian group stated that the proposal for a 6-week ceasefire in Gaza was being studied. […]
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Very tiring, and perhaps fruitless, attempts to temporarily stop the war in the Middle East. According to some media, Hamas has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by Israel. Shortly before, a member of the Palestinian group stated that the project was being studied proposal for a ceasefire of 6 weeks in Gaza. This is the solution proposed by the United States in the context of the talks mediated by the US itself, as well as from Egypt and Qatar. The proposal specifically provides: six weeks of stoppage of fighting in exchange for the release of 40 hostages. There would also be a partial return of displaced people to the northern part of Gaza. Also included is the option of an initial 3-day respite, with no strings attached, for the days of Eid el-Fitr, which begins Tuesday evening. The Hamas source close to the negotiations speaks of a truce in exchange for liberation of Israeli women and children held hostage, subject to the release of a maximum of Over 900 Palestinian prisoners upon delivery of 400-500 trucks of food aid per day to the starving population of the Strip.
If on the one hand Qatar said it was “optimistic” and an Egyptian source spoke of “great progress” and of “an agreement on the main points between the various parties”, Israel downplayed the possibility of an imminent agreement: “We still don’t see it on the horizon, the distance between the parties remains large” although senior Israeli officials have conceded that progress has been made of reliefs.
Last weekend the Israeli army left southern Gaza, raising hopes of reaching a truce and another ceasefire. The United States they reiterated theirs opposition to a major Israeli Rafah operation, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt. According to the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu However, there would already be “a date” for the blitz.
Meanwhile, Egypt is expanding the range of its contacts promote the recognition of the Palestinian state and the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry he spoke about it on the phone with his Norwegian counterpart Espen Barth Eide. I am already 137 of the 193 members of the United Nations those who recognize a Palestinian state. The list includes many countries in the Middle East, Africa and other regions. However, the Palestinian state has not yet been recognized by other countries as the United States, Canada, most of Western Europe, Australia, Japan or South Korea. The Arab group at the United Nations is currently pursuing a resolution to upgrade the Palestinians’ status from an observer state to a member state.
