Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s executive is finally scheduled to meet this Friday for discussion and voting. An agreement was reached in Qatar on Wednesday. between his negotiating team and Hamas’s negotiating team to establish a three-phase ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Various Israeli media reports and Agence France-Presse confirmed that final disputes over some of the details of the agreement will be resolved throughout this Thursday afternoon, with the aim of convening a ministerial meeting to ratify the agreement. A path was opened. . Same Friday.
It is expected that a meeting of Israel’s security ministers will be held first, after which the Israeli government will be asked to vote on the deal. Israeli ministers had not yet been called to this second meeting at 6 p.m.
There have been all kinds of alarms throughout this Thursday about the possibility of the ceasefire agreement falling apart, after the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said: It is unlikely that this government meeting will be held before FridayHe cited last-minute disagreements with Hamas as the reason.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office accused Hamas of trying to make amends and provoking a “last-minute crisis.” Details of draft ceasefire announced by Qatar yesterdayand we guarantee that the Israeli government will not approve its implementation until this is clear.
The agreement announced on Wednesday sets the cease-fire to begin this Sunday, January 19, with Friday being the last day Israeli authorities can hold a vote.
Despite this “last-minute crisis”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press conference this Friday that he was confident in the implementation of the ceasefire, which would begin “Sunday”.
Hours before this appearance, Hamas issued a statement in response to Prime Minister Netanyahu, assuring him that it would “observe the ceasefire agreement announced by the mediator.” Bassem Naim, head of Hamas’ political bureau, told EFE that he did not know what Prime Minister Netanyahu’s words meant about Hamas’s alleged new demands.
Before Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement became known, jerusalem post It had already announced that the Israeli government meeting would be postponed until “at least” this afternoon. “The Hostage Accord delegation has not completed its mission in Qatar and has not returned to Israel. Ministers will meet once the delegation returns,” Israeli media said in a memo published early this morning. Ta.
This afternoon, a reporter Haaretz Jonathan Liss confirmed this Friday that negotiators will return to Israel before the start of government meetings.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military has not ceased hostilities in the Gaza Strip. killed over 80 Palestinians early Thursday morning.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed concern about these Israeli airstrikes following the ceasefire announcement. “The Israeli government should not be allowed to violate the ceasefire and take advantage of it,” President Erdoğan said at a press conference this Thursday.
Additionally, the United Nations World Food Program this Thursday called for unrestricted access to food and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, detailing that around 80,000 tons of food are waiting at the border with Gaza. These foods can feed one million people for three months.
“The ceasefire brings hope, but the unrestricted movement of humanitarian aid and supplies is needed to reach those in need,” the UN agency said on social network X (formerly Twitter).
