On Sunday, April 13, the delegation of the leadership of the terrorist organization Hamas arrived in Cairo for negotiations with representatives of Egypt regarding the next proposal for settlement in gas, EFE reports.
The delegation is headed by a member of the Politburo Hamas Halil al-Haya.
On the eve of the ASHARQ News television channel reported that representatives of Egypt and Israel exchanged new offers aimed at the ceasefire in the Gaza sector and the return of hostages withheld Hamas. The Egyptian proposal is a combination of previously presented initiatives from Cairo and Washington and “has prospects for promoting negotiations between conflicting parties and achieving real progress on them in the very near future,” wrote TASS.
The project presented by Egypt, according to the Egyptian agency of Maan, is “close to being accepted by the Israeli side both in relation to the hostage and Palestinian prisoners, which should be released from the prisons of Israel.”
The initiative of Cairo involves Hamas’s transfer to eight or nine living hostages, including Idan Aleksander, as well as the bodies of eight hostages who died in Gaza, who has the citizens of Israel and the USA. Israel, according to the Egyptian plan, should release several hundred prisoners, including 150 serving life imprisonment. During this period, which will last 50 days, the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the population of the Gaza will be restored. The period of the ceasefire can be extended up to 70 days to guaranteed the resumption of indirect negotiations between the parties to the conflict at the second stage of the agreement, which determines the termination of hostilities and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza.
Note that this proposal differs from what Cairo proposed at the beginning of the week.
Judging by the EFE report, Hamas’s leadership continues to insist on its version of a possible agreement: the liberation of hostages (living and dead) in exchange for the full withdrawal of Israeli troops and the cessation of hostilities in the Gaza sector (for international guarantees), as well as in exchange for the liberation of Israeli prisons convicted of terror. Such a scenario involves the preservation of Hamas power in Gaza.