Egypt proposes new Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan: Report
The Associated Press reports that Egypt has introduced a new proposal to try and get the Israel-Hamas ceasefire back on track.
Hamas would release five living captives, including an American Israeli, in return for Israel allowing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and a weeks-long pause in the fighting, an unnamed Egyptian official was quoted as saying.
Israel would also release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
An unidentified Hamas official told the AP the Palestinian group “responded positively” to the proposal, without elaborating.
Even Egypt can do nothing else but make concessions to Israel.
Crossing ‘red lines’ in Gaza will have no consequences
Nearly a week since Israel resumed its war on Gaza and upended a two-month ceasefire, the lack of significant action from the international community to halt the hostilities is yet again a sign there will be no consequences for killing and displacing Palestinians, an analyst says.
“There are no consequences. It doesn’t matter what the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, the EU or individual countries say about the red lines Israel is crossing,” Luciano Zaccara, a professor at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera.
“Nothing that happens outside of Israel bothers Netanyahu’s plans.”
While US special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff “has a very clear mandate from Trump to resume the negotiations, it looks that Netanyahu is not working at the same pace”, Zaccara said.
The Israeli prime minister’s policy of recognising settlements in the occupied West Bank is also “beyond what Trump suggested about Gaza”, Zaccara added, but the misalignment between the US and Israel on these issues is unlikely to result in any action.
