Leaked details of ceasefire proposal hints at compromises to end war in Gaza: Report
The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports that leaked details on truce proposal talks between Israel and Hamas hints at compromises on both sides to end the war on Gaza.
According to the AP, the initial stage of the deal would last for 40 days. During this period, Hamas would start by releasing female civilian captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
After this first release, Israeli forces would withdraw from a coastal road in Gaza and head inland to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid to the starved Palestinian territory.
During this period, displaced Palestinian civilians would be able to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas would also provide a list of captives who are still alive during that time.
Within a period of three weeks, both sides would start indirect negotiations that aim to restore a permanent calm in Gaza, the AP reports. Three weeks into this first phase, Israeli troops would withdraw from central Gaza.
The second six-week phase would seek to finalise arrangements for a permanent calm in Gaza, and the release of all remaining captives, both civilians and military, in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails.
Israeli military captives held in Gaza would not be released before the start of the calm in the war-torn territory.
The third and final stage, according to AP, would include the release of the remains of deceased captives and more Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, and the start of a five-year reconstruction plan for the territory.
This has pretty much been the proposed deal for months, already proposed in December if I remember correctly.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/12/29/israel-hamas-war-egypt-proposes-three-step-ceasefire-plan_6385088_4.html
Yep, end of December Hamas already came up with the staged ceasefire plan to come to a end of the war. US and Israel have been dragging it on.
Smotrich: Hamas’s demand to end the war is a ploy
Israel agreeing to end the war in Gaza in exchange for captives held by Hamas would damage the “security of Israel’s citizens”, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says.
The demand would be a defensive alliance between the United States and Hamas, under which the former will give “all the murderers, slaughterers and rapists in fact full impunity and prevent Israel from destroying it”, wrote Smotrich on X.
“Any Israeli leader who agrees to this, by signing or turning a blind eye, will be forever remembered for knowingly neglecting the security of Israel’s citizens,” Smotrich said, urging an operation in Rafah “now and immediately, with full force”.
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