By Israel’s hand. “The special envoy [Steve] Witkoff and the president have submitted a proposal of Alto El Fuego to Hamas that has the support and support of Israel. ”Hamas has assured that he is studying the proposal and a high position of the group, Sami Abu Zuhri, has indicated to Reuters that they are discussing it, although, according to him, the text assumes the positions of Israel, does not include commitments to finish the war or the withdrawal of the war Israelis.
The US plan proposes a high fire of 60 days and the release of 28 Israeli hostages in the first week in exchange for the release of 1,236 Palestinian prisoners and the bodies of 180 dead Palestinians, as Reuters has revealed. Hamas has 58 hostages in his hands.
“Israel approved this proposal before Hamas was sent,” explained the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavit on Thursday. “I can also confirm that the conversations continue, and we hope that a fire is reached in Gaza to be able to achieve the return of all hostages, a priority of this administration from the beginning.”
“I will not make comments about it, since we remain immersed in the process,” he said.
In recent days, a possible agreement between Israel and Hamás for a high fire in Gaza, led by Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East has been leaked several times.
Witkoff has been working on a proposal that is accepted by both sides, which continue to maintain very remote positions in some issues, such as the duration of the high fire: Hamas demands that it be definitive and give way to the end of the war; Israel is willing to cease fire for a limited time until all hostages are released but does not commit to ending its assault on the strip.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, has transmitted this Thursday to the families of those kidnapped by Hamas that has accepted the Witkoff proposal.
During the previous senior fire, between January 19 and early last March, a total of 33 hostages (eight of them, deceased) were released in exchange for the release of some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. The agreement collapsed after Israel and Hamas failed to move to the second phase, which was scheduled to begin in March, as stipulated in the pact reached shortly before Trump arrived at the White House and whose achievement the Republican boasted.
After the negotiations for the second phase of the agreement stagnate, Israel broke the high fire unilaterally on March 18 and resumed its brutal offensive against Gaza, which has intensified in the past two weeks. Since that date, almost 4,000 Palestinians have been killed in the strip and the total number of victims since the beginning of the war in October 2023 exceeds 54,000 dead and 123,000 injured, according to the latest data from the Gazatí Ministry of Health.
Source: www.eldiario.es
