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Israel needs to evaluate deal Hamas agreed to, White House says
White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby has told reporters that Israel must have a chance to evaluate the ceasefire deal Hamas agreed to, as the US’s CIA director continues talks with leaders in the region.
What is going on, is Israel trying to back out again.
Jordan’s FM says Netanyahu risking ceasefire by bombing Rafah
“Tremendous effort has been made to produce an exchange deal that’ll release hostages & realize a ceasefire,” Ayman Safadi said on X after the Israeli army announced it would be carrying out strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza’s southern city.
“Hamas has put out an offer. If Netanyahu genuinely wants a deal, he will negotiate the offer in earnest. Instead, he is jeopardizing the deal by bombing Rafah,” Safadi said.
Hamas agreed to a deal brokered by Egypt and Qatar, it's not another proposal. But it seems US and Israel are already trying to alter the deal.
Hamas says Palestinians ‘will not back down from demands’
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has had a phone call with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on the group’s acceptance of a proposal by mediators.
Hamas said in a statement that the two leaders emphasised that “resistance factions will not back down from their demands”, including a ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal of Israeli troops, an “honourable” exchange of prisoners, reconstruction of Gaza and the lifting of the siege.
“The two leaders also reviewed the procedures required to ensure the implementation of the agreement after the resistance took its decision based on a conscious vision of developments in the current situation at all levels,” a statement from Hamas said.
A look at the first phase of the ceasefire agreement agreed to by Hamas
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/heres-everything-know-about-gaza-deal-hamas-agreed
We’ve been reporting on a statement from the Palestinian group that it had agreed to a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza put forth by mediators Qatar and Egypt.
According to a copy of the proposal obtained by Al Jazeera from Hamas sources, the agreement would be implemented in three phases.
The first phase, lasting 42 days, would see the release of 33 Israeli captives held in Gaza, “including women (civilians and soldiers), children (under the age of 19 who are not soldiers), those over the age of 50, and the sick”, the agreement says.
The release of each category of Israeli captive will lead to the release of a corresponding number of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
“All necessary legal procedures to ensure that freed Palestinian prisoners are not re-arrested on the same charges are to be completed,” the agreement says.
In addition to extensively detailing the prisoner swap, the proposal also includes plans for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops “away from densely populated areas to a defined area along the border all along the Gaza Strip”, as well as the suspension of all air traffic over the Strip and a plan to return displaced Palestinians to their homes.
A look at phases two and three of the ceasefire agreement
In the ceasefire proposal agreed to earlier today by Hamas, phase one is the most crucial and the most tenuous, and therefore the most heavily detailed, according to a copy of the text received by Al Jazeera from Hamas sources.
Phases two and three, also set to last for a period of 42 days each, are much more vaguely outlined, but nonetheless include a firm set of
Phase two will see, according to the agreement:
“A return to sustainable calm (a permanent cessation of military and hostile operations) must be announced and take effect before the exchange of captives and prisoners – all remaining living Israeli men (civilians and soldiers) in exchange for an agreed-upon number of prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and detention camps. Israeli forces shall withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip.”
Phase three, according to the text, will include:
“An exchange of the bodies and remains of the dead on both sides after they have been retrieved and identified. The reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip over a period of three to five years – including homes, civilian facilities, and infrastructure – and compensating all those affected, under the supervision of a number of countries and organisations, including: Egypt, Qatar, and the United Nations. A complete end to the siege of the Gaza Strip.”
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