Only a change in the demands of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas regarding a possible truce in the war in the Gaza Strip will allow negotiations to move forward, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday (14).
“Israel did not receive any new proposal from Hamas in Cairo regarding the release of our hostages,” the Israeli Prime Minister's office said in a statement on Wednesday, after sources in Egypt confirmed to EFE the absence of an Israeli delegation in the negotiations, which continue in the Egyptian capital.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that Israel will not give in to Hamas' delusional demands,” he added.
This Tuesday (13), the heads of the American intelligence agency (CIA), the Israeli national intelligence agency (Mossad) and the intelligence services of Qatar and Egypt met amid strict secrecy, in conversations that were, according to the same sources, “fruitful and had positive results”.
But one of the main obstacles remains the number of prisoners that Hamas is asking Israel to release from its prisons, in principle more than a thousand, in exchange for the 134 hostages held in Palestinian territory.
Representatives of the hostages' families announced protests for this Thursday (15) in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. They consider the lack of Israeli cooperation a “death sentence” for their loved ones, they said in a statement Wednesday.
On Monday (12), two Israelis of Argentine origin were rescued in the first successful military operation involving heavy artillery and shelling in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
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