A The confirmation came after Channel 12, the most watched channel in Israel, reported that Mossad intelligence chief David Barnea, who heads the Israeli delegation, had reprimanded the Israeli prime minister in a tense meeting on Thursday for squandering the advantage gained after the death of Hamas’ top political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was also the Islamists’ chief negotiator.
Haniyeh was the target of an attack in Tehran, blamed on Israel, which he denied.
Barnea reportedly stressed that there was an agreement ready to be accepted, but the prime minister’s office denied these alleged disagreements and said the report “is incorrect,” Efe reported.
“The premise that Hamas has allegedly accepted the terms of the agreement is false. It is not yet clear whether Hamas has withdrawn its demand that Israel commit to ending the war and fully withdrawing from the Strip. [de Gaza]and who cannot fight again,” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in the statement.
The Prime Minister’s office announced that “no agreement has yet been reached on the number of live hostages to be released, on Israel’s continued presence in the Philadelphia axis – the border between Gaza and Egypt -, on the mechanism to prevent the entry of terrorists and illegal aliens and other important details.”
Israel’s demands were included in the proposal presented by US President Joe Biden in May, a draft on which the ceasefire is being negotiated, to which “Netanyahu added nothing, while Hamas demanded dozens of changes,” the office further explained.
“Sinwar [chefe do Hamas em Gaza] “It is the obstacle to the agreement, not the prime minister, who is willing to do anything to free our hostages, who are dear to him, while maintaining Israel’s security and preventing the conditions that would allow Hamas to regain control of the Strip, become a threat to Israel again and commit the atrocities of October 7 again,” the same source added.
Egyptian security sources confirmed today that contacts between Egyptian and Qatari mediators with Israel have completely ceased.
“The assassination of Haniyeh certainly does not help the negotiations,” Biden stressed, for his part, on Thursday night.
“How can negotiations be held when one side is killing the other?” Qatari Prime Minister Mohamed bin Abderrahman, Hamas’s main interlocutor, asked on Wednesday.
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas was triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist group on Israeli soil on October 7, which left around 1,200 people dead and more than two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
Following the Hamas attack, Israel launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has already caused more than 39,000 deaths, mostly civilians, and a humanitarian disaster, destabilizing the entire Middle East region.
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