Israel offers a 45-day ceasefire but with a hostage release demand: Hamas


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Hamas said on Monday that Israel has offered a 45-day ceasefire if it releases half of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, which the United Nations said that now since the onset of the war, its worst human crisis has now been in the grip.

A Hamas official told AFP that Israel had also demanded that the Palestinian terrorists dispropow the Gaza war, but it crossed the “red line”.

Egyptian mediators passed an Israeli proposal that includes “the release of half -bounds in the first week of the agreement, extending the Trustens for at least 45 days, and the entry of assistance,” the official said.

During October 7, 2023, terrorists took 251 hostage, the war -shutdown attacks. Some 58 are still held in Gaza, in which 34 Israel’s army says that they have died.

The official said, “The proposal includes Hamas and all Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip as a condition for the permanent end of the war,” the official said.

The Hamas leaders were reviewing the ceasefire proposal, but the official said: “Hamas and resistance factions are the situation that the weapons of resistance are a red line and non-conventional,” the official said.

The official said that Hamas negotiaters were going to Qatar, where the group has an office and the main arbitration talks with Israel have been held. Israel did not immediately comment on Hamas’s statement.

“Hamas informed the mediators that it is ready to agree to any proposal that includes a permanent conflict break, a complete Israeli return from the Gaza Strip, and the entry of assistance,” the official said.

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Earlier, the United Nation had warned that Gaza was out of control control, with no help in entering the area for weeks and rapid deteriorating conditions.

On October 7, 2023 Hamas, fighting in Gaza, Israel resumed operations in the Palestinian region in March after the fall of a two -month -old ceasefire amid differences in the next phase.

Thousands of people have been displaced since March 2 before the Trus was disintegrated, with Israel to stop humanitarian aid.

The United Nations says that medical supply, fuel, water and other essential things are in low supply.

To coordinate the coordination of the United Nations (OCHA), the United Nations office said, “Human situation is now possible that it is the worst in 18 months since the outbreak of hostility.”

Och said that support employees were forced to “reduce ration and delivery to make the remaining stock.”

At Nasir Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, a doctor, Ahmed al-Fara said that the medical team was working non-stop despite the “lack of everything”.

‘urgently required’

Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “immediate” ceasefire in Gaza.

In a phone call, Macron and Abbas “emphasized the immediate requirement of a ceasefire, the acceleration (and) rejection of the displacement of the Palestinian people, from their land, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Macron said on X that “France is fully mobilized” to free the hostages and prevent the fight. He advocated the “reform” of the Palestinian Authority, which as part of the trick to operate the subsequent gaza without Hamas.

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Taher Al-Nunu, the official officer of Senior Hamas, indicated that the group was ready to release all hostages in exchange for the group “serious prisoner swap” and guarantees that the Israel would end the war.

“The issue is not the number of prisoners,” Nunu said, rather that the business is reviving its commitments, blocking the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and continues the war “.

Speaking after a conversation with Egypt and Katri intermediaries, he insisted that Hamas would not abandon his arms.

Israeli news website Ynet reported that under a new ceasefire proposal, Hamas will release 10 living hostages in exchange for the US that the Israel will enter the conversation for the second phase of the ceasefire.

France hopes that others will follow

The first ceasefire starting from January 19 was included before involving several hostage-charged exchanges.

Israel had sought to expand the first phase, while Hamas insisted that a conversation be held for the second phase under the deal, as mentioned by the former US President Joe Biden.

Macron has announced that France can identify a Palestinian kingdom within months, which may lead to a sharp criticism in Israel.

On Monday, he said that he hoped that French recognition will “trigger” to other countries to follow the suit, and those who do not believe in Israel should do so.

Israel said that recognition moves are prematurely.

Netanyahu said in a statement, “President Macron is constantly wrong to promote the idea of ​​a Palestinian state in the heart of our land – a state whose only aspiration is the destruction of Israel.”

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