Israel does not return Joe Biden’s plan to the sender, on the contrary. Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy advisor, Ophir Falk, confirms that they have accepted the framework of the agreement, although “there are many details to resolve”. “We accepted the deal, it’s not a good deal but we really want the hostages to be released,” he said in an interview with the Sunday Times. “Israeli conditions,” including “the release of the hostages and the destruction of Hamas as a terrorist organization,” have not changed.
In his speech last Friday, the American president described the proposal as a three-phase plan. “This was an Israeli proposal,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in an interview with Abcnews regarding the agreement for the exchange of hostages for prisoners and for the ceasefire. “If it is accepted by Hamas, we fully expect Israel to say yes.”
Gallant: “We are working on an alternative government to Hamas in Gaza”
Israel is working to find an alternative government to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said this, stating that the war will not end until Hamas is dismantled militarily and politically. “In any process that ends the war, we will never accept that Hamas remains in government,” he said. “We are working on an alternative government to Hamas, in a framework in which we will isolate areas, move Hamas members and bring in other forces that they will make another government possible.”
Speaking at the southern command in Beersheba, the minister said that “on the one hand military action, on the other the ability to change the government will lead us to achieve the two objectives of this war, the dismantling of the military and government power of Hamas and the return of the hostages”.
Israeli army announces new operation in Rafah
Meanwhile, the Israeli army has announced that it has started a new operation in Rafah, precisely inside the Yabna camp, in the central part of the city. The IDF claimed to have killed several terrorists, located military infrastructure and many weapons, including anti-aircraft artillery. Since last May 6, Israel has launched an operation in Rafah, where in these months of conflict over a million Palestinians fleeing from the north and center of the Strip have taken refuge.
The Cairo summit
The meeting between the delegations of the United States, Egypt and Israel concluded in Cairo. This was reported by the Al Qhera News website, citing high-level sources. During the meeting, which focused on reopening the Rafah crossing, Egypt maintained its position on the need for Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian side of the crossing in order to resume border operations, a source said. at Cairo News Channel.
Egypt, the sources further reveal, reiterated that Israel is responsible for the failure to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza since its military took control of the Palestinian part of the Rafah crossing on May 7th.
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