Hamas responded positively to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip - he handed Reuters an anonymous Palestinian authoritative acquainted with the case. The organisation’s consequence “was affirmative and should aid to scope agreement” on the truce.
U.S. president Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Israel had agreed to the conditions essential to finalise the 60-day truce. Israeli media had previously reported that if Hamas accepted the agreement, the ceasefire could enter into force as early as next week.
Details of the planned agreement
According to reports from the American, Israeli and arabian press, the agreement is an option of an earlier proposal by American envoy for mediate East Steve Witkoff. The agreement is to establish a 60-day truce, during which Hamas will release 10 surviving Israeli hostages and hand over the bodies of 18 kidnapped people - wrote the diary “Haarec”.
Eight kidnapped are to be issued on the first day of the truce, and 2 - 50 days. As the Israeli army reported, 50 hostages stay in the hands of Palestinian terrorists, of which at least 28 were declared dead.
Exchange of prisoners and withdrawal of troops
The kidnapped are to be exchanged for an unknown number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. In addition, the agreement is intended to supply for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from certain areas of the Gaza Strip and an increase in humanitarian aid.
The war in the Gaza Strip has continued since October 7, 2023, erstwhile about a 1000 200 people died in the Hamas attack to the south of Israel and 251 were kidnapped. According to Hamas-controlled data, the Israeli administration has already claimed over 57.2 1000 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Previous truces and resumption of fighting
The Gaza Strip is ruined, with a humanitarian crisis. The fights were halted for 2 truces - 1 little than a week in the fall of 2023 and the other, in the winter of 2025, which lasted almost 2 months.
On March 18, Israel resumed the war, emphasizing its desire to put force on Hamas to release further kidnapped and accept Israeli terms of extension of the truce. As the media reported, the most serious obstacle in the negotiations conducted by mediators was the question of the end of the war.
Dispute over a lasting end to the conflict
The government in Jerusalem consistently stressed that the war would not end until Hamas had been completely defeated, and he wanted Israel's right to resume after the truce. The Palestinian organization demanded that the agreement should warrant a lasting end to the war.
Trump has announced respective times in fresh days that a truce would be shortly concluded, and according to the media, he has pressed both sides to scope an agreement. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to be admitted by Trump in the White House.
(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.
