A senior Hamas official said that a recent round of Gaza ceasefire talks started on Tuesday at Katri Rajdhani Doha, in which the Palestinian movement came close to the conversation “positive and responsible”.
Abdul Rahman Shadid said in a statement, “A new round of ceasefire conversation began today.” “Our movement is working positively and responsible with these dialogues.”
Israel has also sent a team of negotiaters to negotiate with the objective of expanding the delicate ceasefire in Gaza, but has not yet commented on the talks.
“We hope that there is tangible progress towards starting the second phase from the current era of talks,” Shadid said.
He also hoped that American Middle East envoy Steve Witcoff “would help start interaction for the second phase of the ceasefire agreement”.
“The US administration (Israel) takes responsibility for its unwavering support for the government’s possession.”
The first 42-day phase of the Trus Deal ended in early March, to secure a permanent end for war without a compromise in later stages, which was attacked by Hamas after 7 October 2023.
There are different views on how to move forward, Hamas is seeking immediate interaction for the next stage, while Israel wants to expand the first stage.
Hamas said in a statement on Israel on Monday that Israel said “Israel refused to start the second phase, refused to highlight his intentions of theft and stalling”.
Next to the current era of talks, Israel stopped the power supply to Gaza’s only uninterrupted plant, a trick Hamas condemned as “cheap and unacceptable blackmail”.
Israel has already stopped aid delivery to Gaza amid deadlock over ceasefire.
Hamas said in a separate statement, “There has been a severe decrease of medical supply, refusing the flow of food, enhancing the human crisis in spikes and gaza through drugs, fuel and basic relief.”
The early stages of the Trus, brokers by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, began on January 19, and helped reduce enmity after a tireless battle of more than 15 months, which displaced almost all of Gaza’s 2.4 million inhabitants.
– Air attacks in Gaza –
While the fate of the ceasefire is uncertain, both sides have avoided all-out hostile.
However, in recent times, Israel has launched daily attacks targeting terrorists in Gaza.
According to the region’s civil defense agency, an Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed four people in Gaza City.
The Israeli army stated that its Air Force had “hit several terrorists, threatening the IDF (Israel) soldiers engaged in suspicious activity.
During the first phase of the ceasefire, 25 living Israeli hostages and eight bodies were exchanged for approximately 1,800 Palestinians in Israeli’s custody.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023, the attack killed 1,218 people from Israel, most of them have killed at least 48,503 people in Gaza, while Israel’s counter -retardation campaign has killed at least 48,503 people in Gaza, according to data from both sides, most citizens.
In recent times, American hostage envoy Adam Bohaler held unprecedented interactions with Hamas and stated that an agreement to release more prisoners was expected “in the coming weeks”.
But US State Secretary Marco Rubio spoke on the possibilities of success with those discussions.
Rubio told late journalists in Jeddah on Monday, “This was a once situation, in which our special messengers, whose job people have to release, got an opportunity to talk directly to someone who has control and was allowed to do so.”
“This fruit is not produced. But this does not mean that it was wrong to try”.
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