The indirect negotiations between Israel, Hamas and the mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – in Cairo for a truce agreement in Gaza are based on a document that the Islamist group approved yesterday and that Israel is studying in Cairo.
These are the keys of the document, to which you have had access EFE through an Egyptian security source, which proposes three phases, each lasting 42 days, for the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, as well as the reestablishment of “sustainable calm.”
Hostages for prisoners
In a first phase there will be an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian captives in Israel. Hamas will release “33 Israeli detainees (hostages) (alive or corpses), women (civilian and military), children (under 19 years of age, non-military), elderly (over 50 years) and the sickin exchange for a number of prisoners in Israeli jails and detention centers.”
First it will be the turn of civilian women and Israeli children in exchange for 30 Palestinian children and women for each Israeli. It will be done in accordance with lists provided by the Islamist organization and according to a criterion of seniority in the hands of Israel.
Then, Hamas will release those over 50 years old, sick and wounded civilians. In exchange, Israel will release 30 prisoners over 50 years old and sick for every Israeli detainee.
Subsequently, all living Israeli female soldiers will be freed. In exchange, Israel will release 50 prisoners from its prisons for every Israeli soldier released (30 with life sentences and 20 with other sentences).
When would the exchange be made?
On the third day of the agreement, Hamas will release 3 Israeli hostages and will release 3 hostages every seven days thereafter. On the seventh day of this truce, if possible, Hamas will report on the number of Israelis who will be released in total at this stage.
On the 22nd, Israel will release all prisoners of the “Shalit Agreement” (1,027 Palestinian prisoners who were freed by Hamas hostage Gilad Shalit in 2011) who were arrested again. “If the number of living Israeli detainees (hostages) expected to be released does not reach 33, it will be supplemented with corpses of the same categories for this stage. In exchange, Israel will release all children and women (under 19 years old) who were arrested in the Gaza Strip after October 7, 2023″.
This step must be done in the fifth week of this phase. “Necessary legal procedures will also be completed to ensure that the released Palestinian prisoners are not arrested on the same charges for which they were previously detained.”
Temporary military cessation
In this first stage, a “temporary cessation of military operations between the two parties” and the Israeli withdrawal towards the east, “away from densely populated areas, along the border throughout the Gaza Strip, including the Gaza Valley (Netzarim and Dawar el Kuwait)”.
“Both military and reconnaissance overflights” in the Strip will also cease for ten hours a day, twelve hours on the days when hostages are exchanged.
Three days after the first hostages are released, Israeli forces will withdraw “completely from Al Rashid Street to the east, towards Salah el Din Street,” and military sites and installations in that area will be completely dismantled.” There will begin “the return of displaced people to their homes (without carrying weapons).”
Furthermore, there will be “freedom of movement in all areas of the Strip and the entry of humanitarian aid from the street Al Rashid from the first day (of the truce) and without obstacles.”
The Israeli withdrawal will deepen starting on the 22nd day of the truce and after half of the living civilian hostages, including female soldiers, are free.
Israel will leave the central zone of the Strip, especially Mehwar al Shuhadah Netzarim and Dawar Kuwaitand will dismantle its military installations in these areas.
Aid
From the first day, the entry of enough “humanitarian aid, relief material and fuel (600 trucks per day, provided they include 50 fuel tankers, 300 of them for the north), including the fuel necessary to keep the power station operational, as well as trade and the equipment necessary to remove debris and rehabilitate and operate hospitals (…) and bakeries”.
The rehabilitation of damaged infrastructure and the comprehensive reconstruction of homes, civil facilities and civil infrastructure that were destroyed by the war and “those affected will be compensated, under the supervision of a number of countries and organizations, including EgyptQatar and the United Nations.”
All these measures will continue in the second phase, until a “sustainable calm (cessation of military and hostile operations)” is declared.
Second stage
During the first phase, indirect talks will begin to agree on details of a second phase on the exchange of remaining hostages, soldiers and men, provided they are finalized and agreed upon before the end of the fifth week of the first phase.
This phase will deal with a “the return to sustainable calm (cessation of military and hostile operations) that will come into force before the start of “the exchange of detainees and prisoners between the two parties”. It will also address “the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces” of the Gaza Strip.
Third phase
In this last phase, corpses and human remains will be exchanged.
It will be launched “the reconstruction plan” of Gaza duringa period of between 3 and 5 years” and it will be “end to the total siege of the Gaza Strip”.
Source: Gestion
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