The first round of interviews in Gaza between Hamas and the mediators in Egypt ended “in a positive climate”: Al-Qahera News reported it, an average connected to the intelligence of Cairo.
The talks will continue on Tuesday, always between Hamas and the mediators, in Sharm El-Sheikh, where an Israeli delegation arrived on Monday. Israel and Hamas are expected to start indirect interviews on the details of a proposal by the President of the United States Donald Trump for an exchange of prisoners and a long -term fire ceased.
The president of the United States Donald Trump in the evening stressed that Hamas “accepted some very important things” and that “we will have an agreement soon”. Trump denies that there has been tension between him and Benajmin Netanyahu for the agreement on Gaza. “It’s not true, it was very positive,” said the American president. Greta Thunberg “has an anger management problem. I think he should consult a doctor. To be so young he is really angry”. Donald Trump said it by answering a question about the flottilla.
The first contact to discuss the Trump peace plan began in Sharm El Sheik. The indirect interviews between Israel and Hamas are managed by Egyptian and Qatarini mediators. Very few information that trap, confirming the delicacy of the moment. What is certain is that the US president wants to do it quickly, without wasting more precious time.
While gaza still rains bombs, the IDF explains that he has hit several terrorist cells ready to attack the troops.
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyau sent a medium -level team, composed of the deputy director of Mossad, the deputy of the Shin Bet, the coordinator for the hostages Gal Hirsch, General Nitzan Alon, the director very close to Prime Minister Ophir Falk, the head of Cogat (the authority of the territories) Rassan Alian, and several officers of the Idf. For the part of Hamas it is not clear if the leader Khalil Al-Hayya, who was in Cairo on Monday morning, has already reached the Egyptian tourist resort where the meeting is held. The big names of the negotiations are missing from the table: the special envoy USA Steve Witkoff, the councilor and son -in -law of Trump Jared Kushner should reach Sharm in the next few days.
Just like Ron Dermer, who guides the Israeli team and the head of Mossad David Barnea. The four, according to rumors, will set off after the first days of interviews, when the ‘technical issues’ have been overcome. The head of Egyptian intelligence will supervise the interviews and a meeting to finalize the agreement should be held by the end of this week. A Hamas official who spoke to Araby at Jadeed said that the organization told the mediators that he was willing to distance himself from the Gaza group.
But on this crucial circumstance there is no confirmation. An American official told Sky News Arabia that priority is the release of the hostages: “There are many details on which you have to work, but the priority is the liberation of the kidnapped, because this would give an impulse to continue with the other points of the plan”. On Monday, Arab newspapers have written that Hamas, during the talks in Egypt, will in particular ask for the release of seven elderly prisoners, the so -called ‘Big Seven’: Marwan Barghouti (5 life and 40 years old), Ahmed Saadat (48 life sentences), Hassan Salameh Abdullah (35 life sentences), Ibrahim Hamed (54 life sentences), Abdullah Barghouti (67 life sentences and 5200 years), Abbas al-Sayed (35 life sentences and hundreds of added years), Nayef Barghouti (the Palestinian prisoner with the longest sentence in the world: after spending 44 years in prison, he was released in 2011 and arrested again in 2014). On the question, Netanyahu informed the Minar Ben Gvir minister of the Italian Barghouti, guided by Marwan Barghouti, will not be included in any phase of the agreement “. The same goes for the militants of the Hamas elite forces arrested after taking part in the massacres of October 7, 2023
According to Trump’s plan, Israel should also release 1,700 Gaza detainees arrested after October 7th .. Israel is keeping the details of the negotiations secret, as can be seen also by the absence of statements.
For Hamas, on the other hand, several representatives have spoken in an anonymous form: what emerges is that, as in the previous rounds of negotiations, it will require guarantees for the ceasefire, it will require changes on the withdrawal of the IDF and only later will we talk about disarmament and exile. Washington and Jerusalem, reported TV Kan, are showing great optimism and hope to reach an agreement for the release of the hostages already on Sunday