The negotiations to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip progress positively and They are approaching an agreement in principlealthough the parties have not yet closed any definitive agreement, they informed this Saturday EFE sources familiar with the conversations taking place in Cairo.
A Palestinian source, on condition of anonymity, said that “there is great progress in the negotiations between the Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel”, and explained that the Egyptian delegation in the negotiating process “has reached an agreed formulation regarding the points of disagreement.”
He specified that the latest agreement they are currently discussing includes a first phase of 40 days of truce in which 33 will be released Israeli hostages of the total of some 128 held by Hamas, while the Israeli Army will withdraw from the areas in which it is present in the Gaza Strip.
According to this same source, the second phase will continue for another period of 42 days during which all the remaining hostages will be released and will extend a process of “permanent calm in Gaza”while the third and final phase will include exchanging the corpses and will also last 42 days.
He also noted that he wants a written American commitment to an unconditional end to the fighting” and also requests that Israel not prevent return to the occupied territory of West Bank to the Palestinians freed in exchange for the hostages.
According to a senior Hamas official quoted by the Qatari network Al Jazeerathe fact that Netanyahu insist that Israel will enter the city of Rafah Regardless of a possible agreement, it is a “key element” that is also being discussed today in the talks.
So far, in the Palestinian enclave, at least 32 people died in the last 24 hourswhich raised the number of fatalities registered in the enclave’s hospitals to 34,654, in addition to more than 77,900 injured, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, dependent on Hamas.
