🔗 Share this article

News Agency

Indirect talks focused on achieving a final agreement on a US peace plan to end the war in Gaza have commenced in the Egyptian city of the negotiation site.

Local and international officials have stated that the discussions are concentrating on "preparing the environment" for a anticipated transfer that would result in the release of all captured Israelis in exchange for a number of incarcerated individuals.

The group stated it consents to the negotiation framework partially, but has not responded to several crucial requirements - particularly its weapons surrender and political participation in Gaza.

Israel's prime minister said on the weekend that he expected to reveal the freeing of detained individuals "in the coming days"

Historical Framework

The negotiations, which will involve regional and international officials holding shuttle meetings with teams from both the conflicting parties in isolation, take place on the eve of the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7th, in which approximately 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were seized.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in retaliation. Following the initial attack, 67,160 have been lost their lives by Israeli military operations in Gaza, as reported by the region's medical administration.

Proposal Framework

The 20-point plan, which has been agreed upon by American leadership and the Netanyahu government, outlines an prompt cessation to hostilities and the liberation of 48 captives, only 20 individuals are thought to be living, in compensation of multiple hundreds of detained Gazans.

The proposal specifies that once all involved agree to the proposal "complete assistance will be immediately sent into the Palestinian territory"

It also specifies that Hamas would have no involvement in governing Gaza, and it allows for an independent Palestinian nation.

Recent Developments

In the latest development, the group answered to the initiative in a announcement, in which the group consented "to liberate all detainees, both alive and killed, following the exchange formula contained in the American plan" - if the necessary circumstances for the swaps are fulfilled.

It omitted reference to or endorse the detailed initiative but said it "reaffirms its commitment to transfer the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of technocrats, based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support"

The declaration failed to address of one of the crucial requirements of the proposal – that the militant group agree to its disarmament and to having no future involvement in the governance of Gaza.

Regional Reactions

Gaza inhabitants described the group's reaction to the negotiation initiative as unexpected, after multiple days of indications that the faction was considering denial or at least significantly qualify its approval of the American initiative.

Alternatively, the militant group excluded its established limits in the official statement, a action many consider a sign of external pressure.

European and Middle Eastern leaders have supported the initiative. The local administration, which controls areas of the disputed regions, has described the Trump administration actions as "authentic and resolute"

The Persian nation - which has been one of the organization's key backers for many years - has also currently expressed its support for the American initiative.

Present Conditions

Israeli bombardment continued in multiple areas of the Gaza Strip on the beginning of the week before the talks beginning.

Defense personnel is implementing an military operation in the urban area, which it has said is designed to securing the freeing of the still-detained individuals.

An official representative, spokesman for Gaza's civil protection agency, reported that "assistance vehicles have been permitted entry to the urban center since the offensive began recently"

"Remains persist we cannot retrieve from zones under defense force authority" he stated.

Numerous individuals of the urban center have been required to leave after the defense forces required departures to a designated "humanitarian area" in the south, but hundreds of thousands more are thought to have stayed.

The military official has warned that those who remain during the offensive would be "terrorists and supporters of terror"

In the recent period, 21 residents have been fatally injured in Gaza and a another 96 wounded, the Hamas-run health ministry said in its most recent report.

Foreign correspondents have been prohibited by Israel from accessing the Palestinian territory autonomously since the commencement of the conflict, making verifying claims from all parties difficult.