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Israel says negotiators in Cairo to discuss last captive’s remains
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office says a team of Israeli negotiators travelled to the Egyptian capital today to discuss the release of the final Israeli captive’s remains from Gaza.
The body of Ran Guili, an Israeli police officer, is believed to still be in the Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli delegation in Cairo was led by Gal Hirsch – Israel’s hostages and missing persons coordinator – and included representatives from the Israeli military and the Shin Bet and Mossad security agencies, according to the statement from Netanyahu’s office.
Once the Gaza ceasefire’s first phase is finished with the return of all living and deceased captives, the second phase is supposed to begin with its military’s full withdrawal. Israel, however, still refuses to discuss the second phase until the last body is returned.
A lack of progress is not surprising. Analysts point out the previous truce collapsed in March before the second phase had even begun as Israel launched major military strikes.
What happens next under the US-brokered Gaza peace plan?
Negotiations on the next stage of the Gaza ceasefire continue without significant progress.
President Donald Trump’s plan has various stages: a truce, the withdrawal of Israeli forces, setting up a new administration for Gaza, and then finally the reconstruction of the territory levelled by Israel’s genocidal war.
For now, the Israeli government demands that the last captive’s remains are returned before any talks begin on the second phase via the mediating countries: the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye.
Egypt will also host a conference on Gaza’s reconstruction that will focus on the territory’s humanitarian needs, but no date has yet been set.
“Israel doesn’t really seem to be putting any serious thought into what the post-war phase is supposed to look like,” said Michael Milshtein, a researcher at Tel Aviv University.
Gaza family incinerated in Israeli air strike on ‘safe zone’
Israel burned a Palestinian family to death in their tent while bombing a displacement camp and a nearby hospital in southern Gaza. The victims included a father and his two children, aged eight and 10.
Israeli artillery shelling targets Syria’s Quneitra province
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reports the Israeli military fired several artillery shells into its southern Quneitra region, as well as the western countryside of Deraa. Citing a reporter in Quneitra, the news agency said Israeli forces attacked the outskirts of Kuwaya, a town in western Deraa, and Tal Ahmar Sharqi in Quneitra.
The Israeli army also set up a checkpoint on a road connecting two villages in Quneitra, the news report said.
Israel has carried out a series of deadly bombings as well as frequent army incursions into Syrian territory since the fall of longtime President Bashar al-Assad last December.
