Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Monday that at this point, fourteen months after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, there is a “greater chance” than ever of reaching an agreement with Hamas for a ceasefire and the release of hostages.
“We are holding indirect negotiations. We can be more optimistic than before, but we are not there yet. I hope we will succeed,” the minister said at a press conference in Jerusalem.
Saar insisted that there will be no ceasefire in Gaza without an agreement to release the hostages, but admitted that there is now a will on both sides to achieve this.
"I think we now have the best chance yet of reaching an agreement for the hostages. We still don't have 100 percent guarantees, but there are reasons to believe that it will happen naturally," he said, without giving further details.
A Hamas delegation returned last night from Cairo, where it held contacts with mediators, and He has provided a list of names of hostages he can release in the first phase, as well as of Palestinian terrorist prisoners, including some long-term prisoners, which he is demanding in exchange.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday told family members of hostages that “There are reasons for optimism” regarding an agreement that would allow the return of the 96 people kidnapped on October 7 who remain inside the Strip, of whom 34 are confirmed dead.
In more than a year of war, Hamas and Israel have only reached one truce agreement, in November last year, which allowed the release of 105 hostages for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas kidnapped 7 people in its attack on Israel on October 2023, 251, of whom 117 have returned alive and 38 bodies have been recovered.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.
Without a doubt, TIME also has an effect that must be considered. In just a few hours, a phenomenal balance of the rational imbalance typical of a region always compromised by the number of actors has been produced. From now on, the analysis indicates that all the greatest rational and AI efforts must be concentrated on achieving a New Democracy, which perhaps with Time can become a MODEL DEMOCRACY,,,,!!!
We must use intelligence to find out who is holding hostages, then find the relatives of these terrorists and use them for an exchange.
Showing them that we are as serious as they are on October 7th.
Civilization, only with civilized people.
For AURORA. In the train of possibilities of FREEDOM, hire some descendant of “Tato Bores…” who publishes a weekly illustration painting, which de-dramatizes the tedium of war. For example, a lion cub Gen 49:9 emerging firmly from the rubble of Gaza and 66 “goats” (Chilean language) returning with bulging eyes and downcast heads, walking in single file through the desert (of Negev-Sinai or Arabia…it doesn’t matter). Cartoons or Illustrations…