Mrirt – Hamas has renewed its commitment to advance talks about the armistice in Gaza. The Palestinian group announced on Saturday that it had accepted a new ceasefire proposal from mediators.
A high -ranking civil servant of Hamas announced Saturday that the Palestinian group has accepted a new ceasefire proposal from Egyptian and Qatarian agents, while Israel submitted its own counter offer.
“Two days ago we received a proposal from our Egyptian and Qatar mediator brothers and approved it,” said Khalil al-Haya during an address broadcast on television during Eid al Fitr. He expressed hope that Israel would not “hinder” the agreement while emphasizing that “the weapons of resistance are a red line”.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed It had checked the proposal and “fully transferred a comparison to mediators with the United States” without sharing details.
This development was carried out as the bassem Naim des Hamas Political Bureau stated that the ceasefire negotiations gained genocidal bombings in Gaza despite the ongoing Israeli occupying forces (IF).
Sources near Hamas showed that the talks started in Doha on Thursday evening to revive the armistice and to secure the remaining hostages since October 7, 2023.
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Israel injured an earlier fragile ceasefire that collapsed on March 18 when it resumed its bombing of Gaza Strip. Shortly before these recent conversations began, Netanyahu threatened to confiscate parts of the Gaza Strip if hostages were not freed while the Hamas warned The prisoners would return “in coffins” because the IOF continues to have bombing of the IOF.
The former ceasefire phase, which had expired on March 1, had successfully made the return of 33 Israeli hostages (eight deceased) in exchange for around 1,800 Palestinian prisoners.
According to Israel, 58 of the original 251 hostages, which were taken during the October attack in Gaza, remain in Gaza, with 34 being considered dead.
The renewed diplomatic push represents the most important breakthrough in the negotiations since the previous agreement collapsed, and offers a potential far-needed path to end the devastating 18-month genocide of Israel on Gaza.
