He will answer “Most likely” “From here forty-eight hours”. This is what Hamas said, Tuesday, April 15, about the Israeli proposal to ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, prey for eighteen months to a war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement. What do we know about this proposal, what the Palestinian movement says it has received Sunday in Cairo, through Egyptian mediators?
An official of Hamas said that Israel is asking for the return, in several times, of ten living hostages in exchange for a truce of“At least forty-five days”. Israel also proposes the liberation in two phases of a total of 1,231 Palestinian prisoners and an authorization to bring humanitarian aid into the Palestinian besieged territory. The Israeli public channel Can 11 evokes, she, the return, in three stages, of 25 hostages, nine alive and 16 dead, against a truce of forty-five days.
The return of the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander
The different phases of a possible agreement would provide for redeployments of the Israeli army within the Gaza Strip, where it has taken control of important portions of the territory in recent weeks. What is the calendar? According to this head of the Islamist movement, Israel demands “As a sign of good will” The return, the first day of the agreement, of the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander. It is the only living hostage having American nationality still retained by the Palestinian movement. On the second day, Hamas would release five living hostages against 66 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life and 611 detainees from Gaza. The entry of humanitarian aid in the territory would be authorized.
Israel would demand that the release of hostages be done without public ceremony, as has been done by Hamas in the past. The third day would see the opening of negotiations on a “Permanent ceasefire” that Israel conditions a disarmament of Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups. A requirement which, according to the leader of the movement, crosses “A red line […] non -negotiable “ For Hamas. The second week, he said, Hamas was expected to release four other hostages against 54 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life and 500 others arrested by Israel after October 7, 2023.
Hamas wants a “global and permanent ceasefire”
According to the calendar mentioned by Can 11Five hostages would be returned to Israel on the second day of the agreement, four more seventh day, then 16 hostages on the twentieth day. The chain does not mention Edan Alexander.
Hamas “Has no problem with the number of hostages and is ready to release them all in one time or in several phases”said a high leader of the movement on Tuesday. On the other hand, he “Will not accept any proposal or solution that does not understand a global and permanent ceasefire, a total withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, as well as the entry of humanitarian aid” He added, repeating the refusal to disarm.
