“Military operation in Rafah will happen whether there is a ceasefire or not.”Netanyahu.
The Egyptian official said Hamas says the text’s language is too vague and wants it to specify a complete Israeli pullout from all of Gaza
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Cairo (ANN)-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas to accept the latest cease-fire and hostage-release agreement proposed by Israel.
In a statement, Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of the veterans group’s political bureau, said Hamas views the Egypt-hosted negotiations in a positive spirit and said that a negotiating delegation would travel to Cairo as soon as possible.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some American politicians, including President Biden, are at odds over the suspension of the conflict in Gaza, even though President Biden’s administration has greatly supported Israel’s war.
Netanyahu, He said while the US Secretary of State was crossing the region that a planned military operation in Rafah will happen whether there is a ceasefire or not.
Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the group of Polotical Hamas to end the war in Gaza.
Accoding to Assosisted Press, After months of stop-and-start negotiations, the cease-fire efforts appear to have reached a critical stage, with Egyptian and American mediators reporting signs of compromise in recent days. But chances for the deal remain entangled with the key question of whether Israel will accept an end to the war without reaching its stated goal of destroying Hamas.
The agreement’s immediate fate hinges on whether Hamas will accept uncertainty over the final phases to bring the initial six-week pause in fighting and at least postpone what it is feared would be a devastating assault on Rafah.accodingt to AP.
Egypt has been privately assuring Hamas that the deal will mean a total end to the war. But the Egyptian official said Hamas says the text’s language is too vague and wants it to specify a complete Israeli pullout from all of Gaza. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the internal deliberations.
On Wednesday evening, however, the news looked less positive as Osama Hamdan, a top Hamas official, expressed skepticism, saying the group’s initial position was “negative.” Speaking to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, he said that talks were still ongoing but would stop if Israel invades Rafah.
Blinken hiked up pressure on Hamas to accept, saying Israel had made “very important” compromises.
“There’s no time for further haggling. The deal is there,” Blinken said Wednesday before leaving for the U.S.
An Israeli airstrike, meanwhile, killed at least five people, including a child, in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The bodies were seen and counted by Associated Press journalists at a hospital.
It is predicted that the positions of the two sides, Israel and Hamas, are very different, causing no results.
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