The long-awaited agreement to release the hostages and cease fire in the Gaza Strip was reached after 96 hours of intensive negotiations in Doha, brokered by diplomats from the US, Egypt and Qatar who persuaded representatives of Israel and Hamas to accept the proposed plan. A top Biden administration official credited US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff with taking part in the discussions. The US delegation was headed by President Biden’s special envoy for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, who has been in the region since January 5 and worked intensively to reach a “very complex agreement”. After months of negotiations, the process was accelerated after Trump threatened “hell” if Hamas did not release the hostages by his inauguration on January 20, well-informed sources said. The way was opened in November by the agreement to stop it […]
Source: News Beast
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