FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
JERUSALEM – Qatar has dashed the Palestinian national team's dream of reaching the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup, and now it is the small Gulf kingdom's prime minister who must keep alive hopes of a new ceasefire in the war that arrived today 115 “We made remarkable progress this weekend,” said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani. “Hamas is calling for a permanent ceasefire and the current proposal could lead to a permanent end to the fighting.” He explains that he will meet the fundamentalist leaders at a summit with the American William Burns, the head of the CIA, David Barnea, the director of the Israeli Mossad, and Abbas Kamel wants to present the details of the possible agreement agreed in Paris. the Egyptian super spy.
It is no longer about secret services, the agreement must be publicly accepted. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already showing resistance from Jerusalem: “The draft contains conditions that are not acceptable. We will continue until total victory.” To reiterate to the British TalkTv that “Qatar supports Hamas, it should be able to secure the release of the hostages.” In fact, it was he who has been responsible for the disbursement of since 2018 Approved millions of dollars to fundamentalist bosses, cash that the Doha ambassador had brought to Gaza in suitcases.
The negotiations would have established an initial six-week pause in the army's offensive in Gaza, where the number of Palestinians killed exceeded 26,000, in return for the release of around forty Israelis who were kidnapped on October 7 as the terrorists moved to the south of the country invaded. About a hundred prisoners still live in the tunnels dug under the sand corridor, and almost thirty have died in captivity in the months since the agreement was reached at the end of November last year, which led to the release of over a hundred prisoners. In the initial phase, women, recently detained children and the sick would be released. Only then did we discuss the soldiers (male and female), the men of military age and the return of the bodies. At each step, a “key element” would be identified to calculate how many Palestinian prisoners would be released in return. The mediators have left open the length of subsequent phases precisely so that Hamas can say it has reached a permanent ceasefire and the Israeli government that it has not accepted it.
The families of the hostages reiterate that time is running out, that the war must end now and the kidnapped people must be brought home at all costs. They are angry at the right-wing ministers and MPs who attended the Jerusalem conference on the reconstruction of the colonies in Gaza; In 2005, Ariel Sharon decided to evacuate them and withdrew the army from the 363 square kilometer area. “How is it possible to talk about these projects while our loved ones have not yet returned and the troops are fighting?” Benny Gantz, who left the opposition to join the select war council, also criticized Netanyahu for allowing ministers from his Likud admitted to coming to the festival and supporting the plans of the messianic extremists. While the Americans and French brand the proclamations at the conference as “seditious and irresponsible.”
The hostages are running out of time, also because Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is threatening that the “armed forces will soon be deployed in southern Lebanon”: Because the clashes between the air force and artillery with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah have been going on since the beginning of the offensive in Gaza in response to the massacres in Israel almost four months ago, it seems clear that this is a ground operation. Time is of the essence, as Hamas is still firing rockets into Tel Aviv, at least a dozen yesterday afternoon, and the conflict always threatens to expand: the Israelis have bombed south of Damascus and, according to the Syrians, killed numerous Iraqi military advisers and President Joe Biden decides on the response to the attack on the American base between Jordan and Syria. U.S. air defenses would have been confused by the Tehran-sponsored drones because at that moment one of their remotely piloted aircraft returned.