“UA quadripartite meeting that will bring together Egyptian authorities, their American and Qatari counterparts, in the presence of the head of Israeli intelligence services, will take place in Rome on Sunday to reach an agreement on a truce in Gaza,” detailed a “senior official” quoted by Al-Qahera News.
Cairo insists “on the need for the agreement to require an immediate ceasefire and guarantee the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza” and “guarantee freedom of movement for Gaza’s citizens and a withdrawal [israelita] complete of the Rafah crossing point”, on the border between Egypt and the Palestinian territory, according to the same source.
Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been leading efforts for months to negotiate a truce in the war between Israel and Hamas, associated with an exchange of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
Recent discussions have focused on a framework presented in late May by US President Joe Biden that he said was an Israeli proposal.
Sunday’s meeting will take place at a time when relations between Israel and the US government are under strain, with the US pushing for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by more than nine months of war.
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was received at the US Congress in Washington before meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The increasingly likely Democratic candidate for the November US presidential election signaled a possible major shift in US policy toward Gaza on Thursday, vowing not to remain “silent” in the face of civilian suffering and insisting on the need to conclude a peace deal without delay.
The current conflict in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which caused around 1,200 deaths and more than two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
In response, Israel launched an offensive in Gaza that has already caused more than 39,000 deaths, mostly civilians, and nearly 90,000 injuries, as well as a humanitarian disaster, according to local authorities, controlled by Hamas.
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