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Proposals to exclude Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza are not realistic, and these groups should be included in the Palestinian territory's political landscape after the war ends, an Egyptian official with knowledge of the matter told Qatari newspaper The New Arab. Negotiations about the conflict.
The war, which began on October 7 after a Hamas attack in southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people, has as its main aim the destruction of the terrorist organization, as the Israeli authorities have reiterated at length, at the enormous humanitarian cost to justify the fight against Israel. Civilian population of Gaza, under the faction's rule.
According to the website, this official explains that while the United States is putting pressure on the parties to guarantee a scenario in which Hamas is expelled from Palestinian territory after the war, Egypt is trying to implement a proposal that does not exclude the group . but does not represent it as a dominant political force, as is currently the case.
The alleged statement comes after a proposal from Cairo was rejected by the two Islamic groups this week, two of the country's security officials told Portal. In it, the Egyptians held out the possibility that Hamas and Islamic Jihad would give up power in Gaza in return for a permanent ceasefire.
However, according to these people, members of the political groups rejected the idea, which they deny. The leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have repeatedly insisted that the postwar future must be decided by the Palestinians themselves, not by foreign rules.
The ceasefire proposed by Cairo would take place in several stages, according to Egyptian officials. First, there would be a temporary 10day ceasefire in which Hamas would release all women, children and the elderly held hostage.
In return, Israel would release a preagreed number of Palestinian prisoners from the same groups, stop fighting, move tanks out of populated areas, and allow the delivery of medical aid, food, fuel and cooking gas, as well as the return of people. north of Gaza.
The ceasefire would result in the release of all hostages in Hamas custody in exchange for an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners and a cessation of hostile activity on both sides.
“Many ideas are being put forward and we are dealing with them on the basis that we want a comprehensive end to aggression, not temporary ceasefires. We are open to ideas that could lead to this,” said Hamas member Osama Hamdan.
In addition, the group, along with Islamic Jihad, is insisting on an agreement that releases all Palestinians from Israeli prisons. Israel, in turn, appeared open to another limited ceasefire, but also rejected calls for an end to the conflict and a troop withdrawal from Gaza.
During the last ceasefire at the end of November, 105 hostages were released by Hamas within a week, including 81 Israelis, 23 Thais and one Filipino. In return, Tel Aviv released 210 Palestinian women and teenagers.
Since then, there have been renewed bombings in the Gaza Strip, leaving large parts of the Palestinian territory in ruins. According to the local health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas, more than 21,000 people have died in attacks since October 7 nearly 1% of Gaza's 2.3 million residents. Thousands of people are still missing.
Nearly all survivors were evicted from their homes at least once and many had to move multiple times. This Thursday, for example, tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families fled again in a mass exodus to the central Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces attacked areas full of people leaving the north at Tel Aviv's behest.
Further south, Israeli forces attacked the area around AlAmal Hospital in the heart of Khan Yunis. The Palestinian Red Crescent, which runs the health center and has its headquarters nearby, said a bombing killed 10 Palestinians and wounded 12. It was the third attack in the area around the hospital in less than an hour.
Nearby, at Nasser Hospital, the city's largest hospital and the largest still in operation, women and children screamed as the dead and wounded were brought in.
A child lay motionless on a bed as doctors tried to revive him until one of the doctors signaled that the boy was dead. Beside a bed, a woman held two crying girls covered in dust, while a baby wrapped in a bloody white shroud was laid by its legs next to another body wrapped in a blanket.
“More than 150,000 people young children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and the elderly have nowhere to go,” the main UN agency operating in Gaza, UNRWA, said in a social media post calling the socalled ” forced expulsion”.
“This moment has come. I wish this would never happen, but it seems displacement is an obligation,” said Omar, 60, as he said he was forced to move with at least 35 family members.
“Because of this brutal Israeli war, we are now sitting in a tent in Deir alBalah,” he told Portal by telephone, declining to give a second name for fear of reprisals. “Israel kills doctors, social media influencers, journalists and civilians.”