A ceasefire offer, providing for a cessation of hostilities for 40 days associated with the release of hostages and prisoners, was submitted to Hamas, which should provide a response this Monday, April 29.
A proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has been presented to Hamas, British Foreign Minister David Cameron declared Monday April 29 in Riyadh before a meeting of the World Economic Forum.
A Hamas delegation is expected in Egypt on Monday. After almost seven months of war between Israel and Hamas, it should respond to the latest proposal from mediators in favor of a truce in Gaza associated with the release of hostages.
It is, according to David Cameron, a “very generous offer of a 40-day ceasefire, the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of these hostages.” “I hope that Hamas will accept this agreement,” he said, “and, frankly, all the pressure in the world and all eyes should be on it today to tell it to accept this agreement.” According to the British Foreign Secretary, the proposed framework would lead to “the end to the fighting that we all want to see, so desperately.”
A political future for the Palestinian people
Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been trying for months to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas, and recent momentum appears to suggest new momentum toward stopping the fighting.
The British Foreign Secretary also pleaded in favor of a “political horizon for a two-state solution”, with an independent Palestine coexisting with Israel. However, for this, “those responsible (for the attack) of October 7, the leaders of Hamas should leave Gaza and the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza should be dismantled.” “The Palestinian people must have a political future, but Israel’s security must also be assured, and these two elements must go hand in hand,” he concluded.
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With AFP
