The talks between the delegations of Israel and Hamas on the peace plan presented by President Donald Trump, after the free -conditioned green light given by the Islamist movement, should begin tomorrow, according to someone already tonight. On what will happen in Egypt, where the mediators will meet, it is difficult to bet.
Sources of the Netanyahu government told the Kan broadcaster that the 48 Israelis still in the hands of Hamas, about twenty living and the rest died in captivity, could be returned soon.
Question of days. Inevitable to think that Israelis and Americans point to celebrate the second anniversary of the massacre of 7 October 2023 with the long -awaited return of the kidnapped. But the Via del Trionfo is paved with obstacles.
Meanwhile, on the times of the return, as Musa Abu Marzouq clarified, a high manager of the movement, in an interview with Al Jazeera. “We will not be able to return them in 72 hours,” he said. And in any case, he marked, “before the war must end”.
Then it is not obvious, on the contrary, that Hamas accepts a break between the release and withdrawal of Israeli forces. But even if it were, the movement demands a precise roadmap and a total demobilization of the IDF, reiterated Abu Marzouq. The Netanyahu government speaks of a partial withdrawal only, Hamas can only demand total retreat. And this is where the Americans will come into play.
The Israeli and Hamas mediators are expected in the late afternoon where the negotiations should be held, even if there has been talk of a hypothesis shar el sheikh as the location. For Israeli part there will be Minister Ron Dermer, a high official of the Shin Bet and Gal Hirsch, to whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had assigned the task of dealing with the kidnapped of 7 October 2023.
And there will be a delegation from Washington: Trump’s correspondent, Steve Witkoff, and the president’s brother -in -law, Jared Kushner.
The first point under discussion, confirmed Israeli sources to local media, will be 72 hours. «It will be discussed how long it is necessary to look for and collect bodies from the places where they are. Hamas will participate in the discussion, “explained an Israeli source in Channel 12.
According to the same sources, Israel will deliver the retreat maps to the mediators already in the first phase of the interviews. Security officials have already started to draw up a list of Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for the hostages.
Next week could therefore be crucial for the fate of the war even if the negotiations certainly do not open in a climate of great mutual trust. Although both sides are skeptical evidently on the outcome of the negotiations, and there are tensions and divisins both inside Hamas and in the Israeli government on the plane, nobody can take the luxury of being seen hesitant or throwing the table first. Netanyahu is put under pressure by Trump, Hamas by Arab and Islamic leaders eager to see the end of the war. And to start building the after.
Materially, according to the plans that Trump has promised to prepare and that will mobilize millionaire investments under the supervision of Tony Blair. And politically. Even Abu Mazen praised Trump and urged to immediately start a process that brings peace and the birth of a Palestinian state that lives next to Israel “as a stability partner” in the region.
But even on this Hamas does not fail to dictate his condition. There is an agreement on the passage of the Gaza Administration to Independent under the responsibility of the ANP. But certainly not to Blair.
“We will never accept that it is someone who is not Palestinian to check the Palestinians,” said Abu Marzouk, much less the former British premier: “We cannot have someone like Tony Blair to govern in Gaza because this man destroyed Iraq,” he said.
Netanyahu himself would be anything but convinced that the response received from Hamas is as positive as Trump interpreted it, to the point of asking Israel to put an end to the fighting immediately. Which in fact the IDF did only partially.
Officially, the Israeli forces suspended offensive operations, but on the ground we are still fighting: no fire, just a reduction. And the same spokesman for the Idf in Arabic has warned the Palestinians not to return to the north, including the city of Gaza. Drones and helicopters have flocked the strip and mortar shots without stopping in the direction of anyone who tried to approach the war areas, they told the Israeli media. So much so that in the middle of the day there were already 20 victims among the Palestinians.