The last round of negotiations at Cairo to restore ceasefire in Gaza and free Israeli hostages ended without any apparent advance, according to Palestinian and Egyptian sources on Monday (14).
The sources said Hamas maintained the position that any agreement should lead to the end of the war in Gaza.
Israel, who restarted the military campaign in Gaza last month after the failure of a ceasefire in January, said it will not end the war until Hamas is eliminated.
The militant group ruled out any proposal to testify the weapons.
But despite this fundamental disagreement, the sources commented that a Hamas delegation led by the Gaza Chief Group, Khalil Al-Hayya, showed some flexibility as to the number of hostages he could free in exchange for Palestinian prisoners maintained by Israel if the truce is extended.
An Egyptian source told Reuters that the latest proposal to extend the truce would result in the release of a larger number of hostages by Hamas.
Israeli Minister Zeev Elkin, a member of the Security Office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke to Army radio on Monday that Israel sought the release of about 10 hostages after Hamas’s previous consent to release five.
Hamas asked for more time to respond to the latest proposal, commented the Egyptian source.
“Hamas has no problem, but he wants guarantees that Israel agrees to start negotiations about the second phase of the ceasefire agreement,” which will lead to the end of the war, the Egyptian source said.
Wave of attacks
Hamas militants released 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians detainees during the first six-week phase of the ceasefire, which began in January.
But the second phase, which should start in early March and take to the end of the war, was never released.
Since the restoration of the military campaign last month, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,500 Palestinians, many of them civilians, and dislocated hundreds of thousands, taking large extensions of territory and imposing a total blockade on all supplies on the entire Enclave.
Meanwhile, 59 Israeli hostages remain in the hands of the militants. Israel believes that up to 24 of them are alive.
Palestinians claim that the wave of Israeli attacks since the collapse of ceasefire has been among the deadliest and most intense war, reaching an exhausted population that survives in the ruins of the enclave.
In Jabalia, a community in the far north of Gaza, rescue teams with orange vests tried to break the concrete with a sledgehammer to recover buried bodies under a building that collapsed in an Israeli attack.
A person’s feet and hand could be seen under a concrete slab. Men carried a body wrapped in a blanket. On -site workers said up to 25 people were killed.
The Israeli army claimed to have attacked militants who planned an ambush.
In Khan Youis in the south, a makeshift camp camp was reduced to piles of rubble by an air strike. Families returned to search the trash in search of belongings.
“We used to live in homes. They were destroyed. Now our tents were also destroyed. We don’t know where to stay,” said Ismail al-raqab, who returned to the area after his family fled the attack before dawn.
Leaders Meeting
The leaders of the two Arab countries that led the ceasefire mediation efforts, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the Catar Emir, Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, met in Doha on Sunday (13).
The Egyptian source reported that Sisi requested additional international guarantees for a truce agreement, besides those provided by Egypt and Qatar.
United States President Donald Trump, who supported Israel’s decision to resume the campaign and asked Gaza’s Palestinian population to leave the territory, said last week that there was progress in the return of hostages.
The war was triggered by the Hamas attack south of Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage to Gaza, according to Israeli data.
Since then, more than 50,900 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive, local health officials.
This content was originally published in no advances in Gaza negotiations, Egyptian and Palestinian sources say on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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