ANDThe United States, Qatar and Egypt, key mediators between Israel and Hamas, announced this Tuesday that they have received the response from this Islamist group and the other Palestinian factions regarding the proposal announced by the US President Joe Biden for a truce in Gaza.
”The State of Qatar and the Arab Republic of Egypt announce that they have received today, June 11, a response from Hamas movement and Palestinian factions on the latest proposal for a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners and detainees,” the mediators said in a joint statement.
The note, published simultaneously by the foreign ministries of both Arab countries, did not disclose details of Hamas’s response, although it stressed that they will study it with the United States.
Mediators will study the response and coordinate next steps with interested parties.
“The two countries confirm that their joint mediation efforts with the United States will continue until an agreement is reached, as the mediators will study the response and coordinate with interested parties on next steps,” the statement added.
“We have just received it. Our team is looking at it, as I believe the Qataris and the Egyptians are doing. We must reserve comment until we have had the opportunity to examine it in its entirety,” the Council spokesman told reporters. of White House Security, John Kirby.
In addition to a ceasefire, the plan contemplates the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, increased aid to Gazans, among other points, and in a final phase a process for the reconstruction of the enclave.
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In said response, the Islamist group said it was willing to “cooperate with brother mediators to engage in indirect negotiations on the implementation of these principles, which are in line with the demands of our people and our resistance.”
Furthermore, he expressed that “the response prioritizes the interest of our Palestinian people and the need to completely stop the ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip.”
After more than eight months of war and with more than 37,000 dead In a devastated Strip, part of the international community hopes that this agreement will be sealed as soon as possible to achieve a ceasefire and the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
Doubts about the details for the implementation of the agreement
Hamas reiterated this Wednesday its yes to the truce proposal of US President Joe Biden, after a senior Israeli official assured that he had not accepted it, but requested that some points be modifiedas confirmed to EFE by sources from the Palestinian group.
“It is not a rejection, it is doubts about the details for the implementation of the agreement,” Hamas sources told EFE.
Although the militias delivered their official response to the delegations of Egypt and Qatar this Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli official maintained that Hamas in its response rejected Biden’s proposal and had also changed the main points of the agreement.
Israel will not stop the war until it meets its objectives: dismantling the military and government capabilities of Hamas and the return of all hostages.
Al Jazeera, a channel belonging to Qatar, last night advanced some of the amendments added to the Palestinian group’s response, such as the total withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, including the strategic corridor of Philadelphia, which separates the Strip from Egypt, which already controls the Army.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuhas insistently repeated that Israel is not going to stop the war until it achieves its objectives: dismantling the military and government capabilities of Hamas and the return of all the hostages.
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*With information from EFE
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