Hamas announced this Tuesday that it is “getting closer to concluding a truce agreement” in the Gaza Strip, declared the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Ismail Haniyeh.
“The movement [Hamas] He gave his response to the Qatari brothers and the mediators. “We are getting closer to concluding a truce agreement,” stated Haniyeh, quoted in a brief message published on the Palestinian movement’s account on the Telegram platform.
According to sources from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second Palestinian armed Islamist group, cited by France-Presse (AFP), The two movements accepted an agreement. and the details must be announced by Qatar and the mediators of the conflict.
For now, the Israeli Government has not yet reacted to these statements.
According to Al Jazeera, which quotes a Hamas official, The agreement will include a ceasefire.agreements so that trucks humanitarian aid can supply all areas of Gaza and the transfer of wounded to other countrieswhere they will be treated.
The agreement also provides for the prisoner exchangewith the release of Palestinian women and children from Israeli prisons by Israeli women and children, who have been held hostage since October 7.
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, met on Monday night with the leaders of Qatar and with Haniyeh, based in this Gulf emirate, to “advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza”.
Qatar, Egypt and the United States are working on a deal to try to free the approximately 240 hostages held in Israel by Hamas in exchange for a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Although the ICRC said it was not involved in the talks, it insisted that committee teams “will be allowed to visit the hostages to check their well-being, administer medication and ensure that the hostages can communicate with their families,” according to a statement.
“We have never been so close, we are confident. But there is still work to do. Nothing is done until everything is done,” said White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
When asked by a reporter in Washington if a deal for the release of hostages is imminent, US President Joe Biden responded: “I think so.”
Two sources close to the talks told AFP on Tuesday that they are focusing on an agreement for the release of “between 50 and 100” hostages in exchange for the release of 300 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, including children and women.
The transfer would be carried out in stages, in a daily exchange of ten Israeli hostages for 30 Palestinian prisoners, and would include the entry of food, medical aid and fuel and, above all, a “renewable five-day humanitarian truce.”
The war between Israeli forces and Hamas, which continues to threaten to spread throughout the Middle East region, broke out on October 7 with a surprise attack by the Islamist movement against Israel.
Source: TSF
