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Entered2024.05.09 10:57 Modified2024.05.09 10:57
CIA director returns to Cairo after meeting with Netanyahu in Israel Ceasefire talks in Gaza continue to suffer as Israel remains skeptical of the truce plan with Palestinian militant group Hamas, and Hamas also insists it will not more concessions. According to Reuters and the Israeli media Times of Israel on the 8th (local time), senior Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishik said in a statement that day that Hamas would not go beyond the ceasefire proposal it agreed to received on the 6th.
Al Rishik added that Hamas remains firm in this position and will stick to it.
“Israel is not serious about reaching an agreement and is using the negotiations to attack Rafah and seize the Rafah transit corridor,” he said. Hamas’s position came as ceasefire and hostage negotiations in the Gaza Strip resumed the previous day in Cairo, Egypt, with Israel, Hamas, and mediators from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar present.
It was previously known that the essence of the ceasefire plan that Hamas agreed to accept was the idea of eventually achieving ‘sustainable calm’ in the Gaza Strip, but it faced a stalemate due to differences of opinion at the end of the period. War.
Khalil al-Haiya, the deputy leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, told Al Jazeera that the ceasefire will be held in three phases of 42 days each, and that the second phase of the ceasefire includes the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip Gaza. It was also explained that Israeli civilians will be released during the first phase of the ceasefire, and during the final phase, there will be an exchange of prisoners between Israel and Palestine.
However, Israel has expressed a negative stance on this truce plan, which implies the end of the war, and has sent a negotiating team to Cairo to determine the exact position of Hamas.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on the 6th, “Hamas’ latest cease-fire proposal is far from Israel’s essential demands,” but added, “Israel will send a negotiating delegation to try to reach an agreement with mediators that meets Israel’s demands. ” “He said. On the 8th, an Israeli official said, “We have seen no signs of a breakthrough in the ceasefire talks with Hamas for the release of hostages.”
However, he said, “The negotiating team decided to stay in Cairo for a while.”
CNN reported that William Burns, Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), also joined the ceasefire talks that resumed the day before.
Shortly before returning to Cairo, Director Burns met with Mossad Director David Varnia and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. He reportedly negotiated with Prime Minister Netanyahu to halt the Rafah attack in exchange for the release of hostages.
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