The Palestinian militant group Hamas signaled on Thursday that a crisis that threatened the GAZA ceasefire, despite uncertainty about the number of hostages that are to be published on Saturday, could be avoided.
The 42-day ceasefire was almost failed this week
Hamas said that the deal did not want to collapse, although it refused what it referred to what was called the “language of threats and intimidation” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. These guides said the ceasefire should be canceled if the hostages are not published.
“Accordingly, Hamas confirms its obligation to implement the signed agreement, including the exchange of prisoners in accordance with the specified timeline,” said Hamas in a statement.
The Hamas, whose Gaza managers Khalil al-Hayya Kairo visited for talks with Egyptian security officers, also said that both Egyptian and Qataric mediators with efforts to “remove obstacles as
Logistic problems with tents, mobile homes
This week, the Hamas Israel was not accused of not respecting provisions that demanded a massive increase in aids and explained that it would not be handed over three hostages to be released on Saturday until the problem was solved.
In response to this, Netanyahu ordered that reserves were called and threatened to resume combat processes that have been pause for almost a month, unless the hostages were returned.
The Israeli minister Avi poet, a member of the Netanyahu Security Cabinet, said on Thursday that he did not believe that Hamas could get out of the agreement.
“There is a deal. You will not be able to give less than what is in the deal,” he said. “I don’t think Hamas can behave otherwise.”
Egyptian security sources said Reuters that they were expecting heavy construction equipment on Thursday, and if this happened, Hamas would publish hostages on Saturday.
The patient situation between Israel and Hamas has threatened to reinvent their conflict, which destroyed the Gaza Strip on the ground and brought the Middle East to the edge of a larger regional war.
Egyptian and Qatarian officials have worked to avoid a breakdown, and a Palestinian civil servant near the mediation effort said that both sides continued the ceasefire and the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
The conversations in Cairo have focused on problems such as Israels that enable the entry of mobile homes, tents, medical and fuel supplies as well as heavy machines for removing ruins, said Hamas.
Salama Marouf, head of the government media office in Gaza led by Hamas, said Reuters that only 73,000 of the required 200,000 tents had arrived in the enclave, while no mobile homes were previously allowed.
Cogat, the Israeli military authority, which supervised the aids in Gaza, said that 400,000 tents had been approved so far, while countries that wanted to deliver mobile homes have not yet sent them.
International auxiliary officers confirmed that despite considerable logistical problems, the aid was received, even though it warned that far more was necessary.
“We have seen improvements in a way, but certainly the reaction is far from enough to meet the needs of so many people who are exposed to so much destruction and loss” capital, Amman.
She said that protective materials despite the Israeli restrictions for so -called “double user materials”, which could also be used for military purposes.
US President Donald Trump confirmed his vision on Tuesday to displace people from Gaza from Gaza when Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington, DC, said on Tuesday he thinks that Palestinians – who condemned the proposal Would welcome vision.
16 hostages published during the last break
In the Arab world, the doubts about the ceasefire business this week reacted to Trump’s comments that the Palestinians from Gaza should be moved in order to develop it under US control.
The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will not travel to Washington to have conversations in the White House, as long as the agenda contains Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, two Egyptian security sources said Reuters on Thursday.
As part of the ceasefire, Hamas has so far released 16 Israeli hostages of an initial group of 33 children, women and older men in order to be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and prisoners in the first stage of a multi -phase contract.
Hamas also freed five Thai hostages in an unscheduled publication.
The negotiations on a second phase of the agreement that mediators had hoped would agree to the release of the remaining hostages and the full retreat of the Israeli troops from Gaza Strip, should already be in Doha, but an Israeli team turned home on Monday Back, two days after arrival.
This week, thousands of Israeli demonstrators have drawn the threat of canceling the 42-day ceasefire that formed the basis of the agreement and asked the government to stick to the deal to bring the remaining hostages home.
The Israeli military has withdrawn from an area of the Gaza Strip, which is known as the Netzarim corridor, which halves the enclave, said Hamas on Sunday, a step that was expected after the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militia. Thousands of Palestinians have streamed through the corridor in the past few weeks and returned from the southern Gaza Strip to their houses in the north, where they had been looking for protection before the war.
The war in the Gaza broke out after an attack on Israel led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which, according to the Israeli government, at least 1,200 people were killed, and more than 250 was taken as hostages. Several Canadian citizens were killed on October 7th.
This triggered a relentless Israeli reaction that, according to Gaza Health officers, awarded the coastal slave and killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.
