Israel to join the Ceasefire talks despite the “unacceptable” reaction of the Hamas

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Israel asked Hamas as a “unacceptable” of a proposal for Gaza’s armistice, but Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was still sending a negotiation team to Doha to start indirect discussions to overthrow the 21-month war.

The Israeli decision took place on Saturday after a meeting of the Prime Minister’s security cabinet on Saturday. The meeting was called to discuss the reaction of Hamas to a proposal created by Qatar, the USA and Egypt, which requires a 60-day ceasefire, the publication of 28 Israeli hostages and the beginning of the conversations over a permanent end of the conflict.

“The changes that Hamas would like to make in the Qatarian proposal were transferred to us last night and are unacceptable for Israel,” said Netanyah’s office in a statement before a negotiation team leaves on Sunday to start “proximity talks.

Israel said it had assumed the original proposal that the mediators presented.

Hamas said on Friday that it received a “positive” reaction to the mediators and “fully and entirely prepared and seriously prepared for it and seriously entered into a new round of negotiations on the mechanism for the implementation of this framework”.

It remains unclear what changes or clarifications the Palestinian militant group had requested.

According to the designs of the Financial Times and confirmed by two people familiar with the negotiations, additional discussions are required in order to complete the scope of the Israeli military withdrawal from the Gaza during the two -month ceasefire and the number and identities of the Palestinian prisoners, which are to be released from Israeli prisons for the host.

It is also assumed that gaps between the two warfare parties to the humanitarian auxiliary mechanism for the besieged enclave and the extent of us guarantees that the initial ceasefire will lead to a permanent end of the war.

Netanyahu will leave Washington on Sunday before a meeting in the White House the next day with US President Donald Trump, who made his wish for a ceasefire.

Trump said late Friday evening that he was “very optimistic” that a deal “next week” could be achieved before it “changes day by day”.

Trump posted this week on his social media platform of truth that he was “very firm” with Netanyahu when he met him, but gave Hamas a warning: “I hope for the well -being of the Middle East that Hamas takes this deal because it doesn’t get better -it is only worsened.”

Netanyahu is expected against the right -wing extremist allies in his government coalition towards an armistice that holds the war shortly before the “destruction” of Hamas.

ITAMAR BEN-GVIR, National Security Minister, asked on Saturday evening on the social media platform X that the Israeli military recapture the entire enclave, hire the entry of all humanitarian aid and encourage the Gazans to “emigrate”.

“I ask the Prime Minister to give up the way of handing over and return to the victory,” he added.

According to the suggestions observed by the FT, Trump would “guarantee” that the conflict will be set for 60 days. During this, 10 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of 18 others would be released in five phases.

There are 50 hostages that were still confiscated in captivity during Hamas on October 7, 2023, which are believed to be alive.

As part of the agreement, “serious negotiations” on the first day to terminate the war-a long-term demand from Hamas-.

Netanyahu has constantly refused to end the war in Gaza until a “total victory” was achieved over Hamas. At the beginning of this year, a short -lived ceasefire collapsed, whereby the Israeli Prime Minister refused to hand over the complete handover of Hamas and the publication of additional hostages and the Palestinian group.

The conversations about a permanent end of the fights that were prescribed in this ceasefire agreement have never been going on, and Israel renewed a devastating military offensive in the shattered area in March.