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Since the Israeli army announced Sunday that the bodies of six hostages had been found in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been under intense pressure to reach an agreement on the release of the hostages still being held in exchange for a truce in the fighting, which would allow for a ceasefire after nearly eleven months of war. Hamas and Netanyahu have blamed each other for the lack of progress in the negotiations.
Hamas and Netanyahu blame each other for failure of Gaza truce talks
The Palestinian Islamist movement insists on the implementation, as is, of an agreement plan announced on May 31 by the American president, Joe Biden, which it had accepted. “No agreement is being negotiatedMr. Netanyahu declared on Thursday on the American channel Fox News. Unfortunately, we are far from achieving this, but we will do everything we can to bring [le Hamas] to a point where they will make a deal.”
“We don’t need new proposals”Hamas wrote on Telegram on Thursday, September 5, adding that Mr. Netanyahu “used the negotiations to prolong the aggression against the people” Palestinian.
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The Israeli prime minister wants Israel to retain control of the Philadelphia Corridor, a buffer zone on the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt, to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons into the Palestinian territory or exfiltrating hostages or some of its fighters through tunnels. Hamas is demanding an Israeli withdrawal from the area. Mr. Netanyahu’s insistence on controlling the Philadelphia Corridor “aims to prevent an agreement from being reached”denounces Hamas.
In Washington, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said “that a ceasefire agreement [était] 90% approved »but that it remained “very detailed questions” and difficult to resolve. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock began a new tour of the Middle East in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to support international efforts for a truce.
Gaza truce: Hamas calls on Washington to put pressure on Israel
The chief negotiator for the Palestinian Islamist movement, Khalil Al-Hayya, on Thursday urged the United States to pressure Israel to reach a truce agreement in Gaza that would include the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
“If the American administration and its president, [Joe] Biden, really want to achieve a ceasefire and conclude a prisoner exchange deal, they must abandon their blind bias for the Zionist occupation and put real pressure on [Benyamin] Netanyahu and his government”said Khalil Al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau based in Qatar, quoted in a statement from the movement.
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Palestinian Red Crescent reports five dead in Israeli raid in Tubas, occupied West Bank
The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that five people were killed and another seriously injured in an attack in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army confirmed it carried out a raid. The Israeli army said on Telegram that it had carried out “three targeted strikes against armed terrorists who posed a threat” for his soldiers in the Tubas area.
In a statement released Thursday, it said it had begun a “anti-terrorist operation” in the governorate of Tubas, including in the city of the same name and in the Al-Faraa refugee camp. Without giving a toll, the army added that among the dead was Mohammad Zakaria Zubeidi, “a major terrorist from the Jenin region”also located in the northern West Bank.
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She said Mohammad was the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, a leader of the armed wing of Fatah, the political movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and also the alleged mastermind of a dramatic prison break in northern Israel in 2021.
At least thirty-six Palestinians (including minors) have been killed and one hundred and forty-five injured since the start of a large-scale operation launched by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank on August 28, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 in Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to a count by Agence France-Presse based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 97 are still being held in Gaza, 33 of whom have been declared dead by the Israeli army. The Israeli reprisals, which caused a humanitarian and health catastrophe in Gaza, have left at least 40,878 dead there, according to the Hamas government’s health ministry.
