The mediating countries are awaiting Hamas’ response to a truce offer submitted at the end of April in Cairo (Egypt) this Saturday.
It provides for a pause in the Israeli offensive and the release of Palestinian detainees in exchange for the release of hostages from the October 7 attack.
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A PALESTINIAN DOCTOR REFLOWED IN FRANCE
Ghassan Abu Sittah, British-Palestinian doctor and rector of the University of Glasgow, was to tell the Senate on Saturday his experience with the wounded in Gaza, at the initiative of the left. He was refused entry into the national territory upon his arrival in the morning at Roissy airport.
“I’m at Charles De Gaulle airport. They’re stopping me from entering France. I’m supposed to speak in the French Senate today,” he wrote on X. “They say the Germans banned my entry into Europe for a year.”
A police Source confirmed to AFP that a “Schengen area ban form” issued by Germany prevented his entry into Paris. Germany had issued an entry ban against him in mid-April to “prevent any anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda”, according to the authorities. According to a French government Source, if a person is reported for “non-admission” in the Schengen Information System by a member country, they are not authorized to enter all Schengen area countries.
BANKS
Armed Palestinian groups, one of which claims to be from the Islamist group Hamas, stole a total of 66 million euros last month from the coffers of several bank branches in Gaza, reports Le Monde. The French daily had access to a document sent by the Bank of Palestine “to certain international partners” which describes spectacular heists including that which occurred in its main agency in Gaza City on April 16.
EGYPT
A Hamas delegation arrived in Egypt to continue truce negotiation discussions. “Significant progress has been made in the negotiations” between Hamas and Israel, said the Egyptian media Al-Qahera News, citing a “high-ranking Source”. The Egyptian mediators “reached a consensual formula on most points of disagreement”, the same Source added.
WHAT ISSUES?
What are the challenges of the current negotiations to reach a truce agreement? LCI’s correspondent in Israel takes stock.
War in Gaza: Hamas in Cairo to find an agreementSource : TF1 Info
RAFAH
An Israeli attack on Rafah, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip where more than a million Palestinians displaced by the war are crowded together, would cause damage “beyond acceptable”, the Secretary of State warned on Friday. American State Antony Blinken. According to him, Israel has not presented any plan to protect civilians during this possible attack. “In the absence of such a plan, we cannot support a major military operation in Rafah,” he said at the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum in Arizona.
“WHO is deeply concerned that a large-scale military operation in Rafah, Gaza, could lead to bloodshed and further weaken a health system already on its knees,” the WHO also said earlier. head of the World Health Organization on
OBSTACLE
The Palestinian Islamist movement remains the “only obstacle between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire” with Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. “We’re waiting to see if, really, they can agree to say yes to the ceasefire and the release of the hostages,” he said at the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum in the state of Arizona.
HAMAS IN CAIRO
A Hamas delegation is going to Cairo this Saturday to “continue discussions” in order to “reach an agreement” on a truce in the Gaza Strip with Israel, which is threatening to launch a ground operation in the Rafah sector despite the guard of Washington and the UN. In a statement released late Friday, the Palestinian Islamist movement said it was in a “positive spirit.”
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Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the war between Israel and Hamas. This Saturday, will a truce agreement be reached?
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced Friday that it would travel to Cairo on Saturday to “continue discussions” on the offer of a truce with Israel and “come to an agreement”while accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to obstruct it.
“We are going to Cairo in a positive spirit to reach an agreement“indicates Hamas, in a press release on its website.
He specifies to stay “determined”as well as other Palestinian groups, to obtain “a total cessation of aggression” Israeli, “the withdrawal of the occupying forces” Israeli and “a serious exchange arrangement” Israeli hostages against Palestinian prisoners.
A senior Hamas official confirmed to AFP that a delegation led by political bureau member Khalil al-Haya, “would travel to Cairo tomorrow (Saturday) morning to continue negotiations on the ceasefire”.
The mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – are awaiting in Cairo Hamas’ response to a truce offer submitted at the end of April, including a pause in the Israeli offensive and the release of Palestinian detainees in exchange for the release of hostages kidnapped during the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian movement on October 7 in southern Israel, which sparked the war. In the 7th month of the war, daily Israeli bombings on the famine-threatened Gaza Strip continue, killing 26 people in the last 24 hours, according to the Palestinian movement’s Ministry of Health.
The strikes notably targeted Rafah, a town in the south of the besieged Palestinian territory where Mr. Netanyahu wants to launch a ground offensive to “annihilate” according to him the last brigades of Hamas, a movement he considers terrorist, as well as the United States and the European Union.
“We will do what is necessary to win and defeat our enemy, including in Rafah”he repeated Thursday, reaffirming his intention to launch this offensive “with or without agreement” truce.
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While saying he is studying the truce offer “in a positive spirit”Hossam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, claimed that Mr. Netanyahu’s statements on an assault in Rafah “clearly aim to frustrate any possibility of agreement”.
Hamas, which took power in 2007 in Gaza, maintains its demands before any agreement, first of all a definitive ceasefire and a total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, which Israel refuses.
