France will recognize the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September, announced Macron on social media. «Faithful to his historical commitment for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I decided that France will recognize the state of Palestine. I will make the formal announcement at the United Nations General Assembly next September, “wrote the French head of state on X and Instagram.
The Hamas counter -proposal on the truce and the exchange of prisoners, meanwhile, once again collapses the hope of an agreement in Doha’s negotiations for Gaza. The Palestinian group has in fact relaunched on the points proposed by the mediators and accepted by Israel, asking for more Palestinian prisoners to be free in exchange for the hostages, as well as a clause to avoid the resumption of the war after 60 days of ceased fire.
In response, the premier Netanyahu has attracted his negotiation team at home from Doha “for consultations”, unleashing hours of rumors and confused reconstructions on the state of the interviews. To put the tombstone on the negotiations, the correspondent of Trump Steve Witkoff thought in the evening, who announced the failure of the interviews and the withdrawal of the American team from Doha, accusing Hamas of “selfishness” and “clear lack of will to reach a fire” in the strip. Before adding that now “alternative options will be evaluated to bring the hostages back home and try to create a more stable environment for the population of Gaza”.
Words that sound like an epitaph on the hopes of peace in the strip, while a yellow remains the alleged meeting in Sardinia between the same US correspondent and Israeli officials and Qatarius: a ‘Yacht diplomacy’ that was to be useful to impress greater momentum to negotiation. But who did not save peace efforts from their failure. Before Witkoff announced the interruption of Doha’s interviews, Hamas ‘counter -proposal had unleashed the most disparate reactions in the Israeli media: for some officials of the Jewish state, it was a practical response, for others’ incettabilè. At the center of the clash is the node of the prisoners: according to sources mentioned by Axios, the Palestinian group has in fact asked Israel to release 200 Palestinians who are serving life imprisonment for killing Israelis and 2,000 Palestinians held in Gaza after October 7 in exchange for 10 live hostages.
Higher numbers respectively to 125 and 1,200 initially proposed. To this – writes Reuters online that cites Hamas sources – adds the insertion of a clause to avoid a recovery of the war in case of non -agreement after the 60 days of respite. In addition to the requests, already advanced, on the maps of the collection of the IDF from the strip and the aid distribution mechanism. Hence Israel’s decision to recall his team in Doha. A choice that if on the one hand made the “crisis” and the “stall” shout in the talks, on the other he had not turned off the hopes of a mediated solution: “The talks did not fail,” said an official to the Israeli broadcaster Kan, “the momentum is still positive”. Another Israeli official said to Axios that the decision to recall the negotiators was taken to try to “shake” the negotiations ” Make further pressure on Hamas, who in the meantime has accused Israel of “temporarizing”.
Faced with this picture, Witkoff’s words weigh like a boulder on the possibility of a mediated war solution. Great Britain, France and Germany have announced an “emergency call” on the strip for Fridaywhich meanwhile offers every day in the world more and more gruesome images of an endless humanitarian crisis, with hunger who now kills men, women and children in Gaza – 45 deaths due to lack of food in just four days. An abyss of which the far-right Israeli Minister Amihai Beniyahu betrays awareness: “The government is pushing for Gaza to be canceled”, he claimed, after heralding that the whole strip “will be Jewish”. Words that triggered the indignation of the Israeli opposition, which in condemning underlined how what Eliyahu said “is exactly what they said in Germany”.