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US pushes for Gaza deal after signals from both sides

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Jake Sullivan, after meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, will travel to Qatar and Egypt to reinforce talks aimed at freeing hostages and easing the humanitarian crisis

The national security adviser of United StatesJake sullivan, said Thursday that he believes a deal could be close on the ceasefire in Gaza and the hostage release, in as much as Israel had given signs of being prepared and there were indications of movement on the part of Hamas.

After meeting in Jerusalem with the Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin NetanyahuSullivan said: “It may not happen, but I think it can happen with political will on both sides.”

He said he planned to travel to Qatar y Egypt, Washington's partners in the talks, to advance efforts that "would allow us to begin bringing those hostages home (...) It would also allow for a massive increase in the humanitarian aid".

A Western diplomat in the region said this week that a deal was emerging but would likely be limited in scope, involving the release of only a handful of hostages and a brief pause in hostilities.

“I can’t make any promises or predictions, but I wouldn’t be here today if I thought this was going to wait until after January 20,” Sullivan said.

Yesterday, the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, he reaffirmed in a telephone conversation with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, on the possibility of signing an agreement to release the hostages who remain in the Gaza Strip after 14 months.

“At this point, there is a possibility of a new agreement, with the hope of freeing all hostages, including those with U.S. citizenship,” Katz said, according to a statement from his office.

Katz also spoke with Austin about the Israeli military's decision to occupy the Syrian demilitarized zone, which borders Israel, after the fall of the regime Bashar al Assad and told him that the attacks on Syrian territory were intended to counter “the danger that strategic weapons would be used against Israel in the future.”

As for Lebanon, the country with which Israel agreed to a ceasefire on November 26 after a year of fighting, Katz reiterated his position of “zero tolerance for violations,” despite the fact that both nations accuse each other of violating the terms of the agreement.

The United States and Israel agreed to cooperate to stop any attempt to "smuggle weapons from Iran to Lebanon through Syria," the military statement said.

According to sources from the news agency EFE Close to negotiations, an Israeli delegation met with Egyptian officials on Tuesday in El Cairo to discuss the deal. Among the hostages proposed for a possible exchange with Palestinian prisoners are women, children, the critically ill and wounded, as well as four hostages with dual Israeli and US citizenship.

Inside the enclave remain 96 of the hostages kidnapped in the Hamas attacks of October 7, of which at least 34 are dead, according to the Israeli Army, a figure that some say is increasing to around fifty.

In more than a year of war, Hamas and Israel have only reached one agreement on a ceasefire and the release of hostages, in November last year. Then, 105 of the 251 hostages kidnapped on October 7 were released in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

(With information from Reuters)
Source: INFOBAE

2 thoughts on “US pushes for Gaza deal after signals from both sides”
  1. Israel must continue to deal heavy blows to these heartless people, and they will soon understand that they have no other choice: either they release the hostages and surrender, or they will die by the IDF's weapons.

  2. https://www.youtube.com/live/HEKcdJgq2bU?si=zkMEWGk8hizTpdaW

    It is said that some leftist pilots in the Israeli armed forces are unhappy with the retirement of some government officials.
    From Israel.

    These pilots must remain on the ground without flying any military aircraft.

    Why?

    It is very dangerous for Israel and its government to lose local and international trust because of any wrongdoing that may be deliberately committed.

    The loyalty of these pilots must be to Israel and the people of Israel first and foremost, and even more so when they are at war for their existence.

    The specific actions are given by the immediate boss but the loyalty remains and will continue to be to all of Israel and not to other interests.

    This is because in Mexico the stateless, traitorous, rotten, silent, and murderous secret lodges and societies that work for other interests assassinated the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio to put the blame on the current president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and the successor candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, and another one like Lic Manuel Camacho Solis, all innocent of a murder they did not commit, with the objective, for fear of being judged, to provoke a political change of government in Mexico from the PRI to the PAN, in the year 2000.

    And the massacre of students in Ayotzinapa in the Mexican state of Guerrero to generate the political change of government in Mexico from the PRI to Morena in 2018. The Frank Masons behind these events for the arrival of candidates related to the Jesuits of the Vatican in the advance of socialism in America.

    These dissatisfied Israeli pilots could provoke acts of revenge that could change the course of history in favor of interests other than those of Israel, and which could be traitorous logistical interests, which is their common identification in the fight to the death for power in the nations to establish their new world order.

    These dissatisfied pilots are left on the sidelines with their entire salary as a precaution and for the safety of Israel and the people themselves to prevent leftist logistic infiltration.

    Someone once said: “The country comes first” before other interests other than the common national interest.

    May God bless, protect, strengthen and give wisdom to Israel and Mexico always...!!!

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