The leader of HamasIsmail Haniyeh, will visit Egypt Wednesday to talk about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the prisoner exchange with Israela source in the Palestinian Islamist movement said on Tuesday.
Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, will visit Egypt on Wednesday leading a delegation “high level” of Hamas and will meet among others with the Egyptian intelligence chief, Abbas Kamel, to talk “on the cessation of aggression and war and to prepare an agreement for the release of prisoners and the end of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip”, the source told AFP.
Egypt and Qatar played a key role as intermediaries in the truce between Hamas and Israel at the end of November, which allowed the release of 80 Israelis of the 250 that the Palestinian Islamist organization is holding in Gaza.
According to the Hamas source, the discussions in Egypt will serve “to facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip and the return of displaced people to their cities and towns in the north” of the Palestinian enclave. .
This visit by Haniyeh will be the Hamas leader’s second to Egypt since the start of the conflict.
More than 19,600 people have died in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive, while 1,140 lost their lives in the Hamas attacks on October 7 in Israel that preceded the bombings, according to data from the respective authorities.
Source: Gestion
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