Israel would have proposed a two-month ceasefire to Hamas as part of a more complex, multi-stage deal that would also include the release of hostages still in the hands of the Palestinian terrorist group. According to the American website Axios, this would be the longest break in fighting since October 7th. The proposal would have been put forward through the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and there has so far been no reaction from Hamas. According to Axios, the proposal includes the release of all remaining hostages and the bodies of those who have died so far in the hands of Hamas. The first phase would include the release of women, men over 60 and hostages with more complex health conditions. We should then proceed with the liberation of the female soldiers, the non-military men under the age of 60, then the soldiers and finally the bodies of the hostages who died in detention. The proposal would also include negotiations for the release of Palestinian prisoners, with the hypothesis of determining a share of prisoners in Israeli prisons to be released for each individual hostage.
Protest by the families of the hostages
Israel “has a proposal on hostages.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this at a meeting with some representatives of the abductees' families in the Knesset today, but added that he “cannot say otherwise” at the moment. The only thing Netanyahu assured in this regard is that “contrary to what we hear, there is no sincere proposal from Hamas”: a reference to weekend press rumors that the prime minister was rejecting a proposal he had put forward The Palestinian terrorist group rejected the new agreement. “Fake news that will surely cause you pain,” the Prime Minister branded her. This must guard against growing political pressure: both from representatives of the families of the hostages, some of whom broke into a hall of the Israeli parliament this morning, and from citizens who took to the streets in their thousands over the weekend to demand their resignation . A pressure that arrives in Parliament after the appeal of former Chief of Staff and member of the War Cabinet Gadi Eisenkot to show a path to early elections: The Labor Party should actually submit a motion of no confidence against it today. The Prime Minister traveled to the Knesset in view of his failure to take the hostages to bring home. An initiative that is unlikely to succeed (Labour is a faded copy of the party that led the country for decades, with only four seats out of 120) but that could cause a first break even in the governing coalition They complain about the bad ones Results that the war in Gaza has achieved so far.
The IDF advance in Khan Yunis
Meanwhile, the Israeli army's military operations in the Gaza Strip continue, expanding this morning in particular in and around the town of Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian enclave. The IDF laid siege to the Red Crescent's central building and virtually paralyzed all Red Crescent activities, including those of the rescue unit, according to the rescue association itself, which reported tanks around the building and snipers on the roofs of surrounding buildings. Local sources add that there are thousands of displaced people in the immediate vicinity of the Mezzaluna building, unable to move in any direction, and that the bodies of several people lie in the surrounding streets. According to military radio, the Israeli army has also surrounded Nasser Hospital and is completing the isolation of the city center, while other troops are gradually advancing west, towards the sea, and south, towards Rafah.
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