Delegations from the Islamist group Hamas and Israel, who participated in indirect talks in Cairo on a truce in Gaza, They left the Egyptian capital this Thursday after a two-day round of negotiations that has not given any apparent results, Egyptian state television Al Qahera News reported.
A security source cited by the network, very close to the North African country’s Intelligence, indicated that “the delegations of Hamas and Israel left after a two-day round of negotiations in Cairo.”
According to the network, although negotiations resumed on Tuesday with the participation of mediators, Israel and Hamas, “some controversial points remain unresolved.”
He added that, despite the withdrawal of both parties, Egypt, Qatar and the United States “continue to bring points of view closer” of Israel and Hamas on a truce proposal formulated by the mediators and accepted by the Islamist group on Monday, although the Israeli Government assures that It does not correspond to the original draft.
Hamas previously announced its withdrawal from Cairo, without mentioning the reasons, but denounced that “the Israeli invasion” of Rafah, at the southern end of the Strip and which borders Egypt, and the seizure of the homonymous border crossing “aims to block the efforts of the mediators and intensify the aggression and the war of extermination”.
“We, the Hamas movement, We affirm our commitment and adherence to our position by accepting the document presented by the mediators,” the group said in a statement.
Egypt warned this Thursday “of the danger of an escalation” in the region if an agreement is not reached between Israel and Hamas, according to security sources cited by Al Qahera News, who added that the Egyptian delegation is intensifying its efforts “to find a consensus formula on some points of dispute”, which they did not detail.
Other Palestinian factions join the negotiation
They joined the process this Thursday representatives of Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian factionsin addition to Hamas, a sign that “the controversial points are being resolved” and that “there are signs that an agreement is maturing,” according to the sources cited by the network.
The truce proposal accepted by Hamas stipulates a pause of three phases, of 42 days each, which would lead to the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a “sustainable calm” in the Strip, as well as the increase in humanitarian aid to Gazan civilians, among other points.
The new round of negotiations coincides with the military operation launched on Monday by Israel in Rafah, at the southern end of Gaza, in which Israel took control of the Palestinian side of the crossing of that city and where at least 35 Palestinians joined the and 35,000 who lost their lives in the seven months of war.