The first phase of the truce between Israel and Hamas In his war in the Gaza Strip It ends this Saturday without negotiations on the following stages having reached results.
El Alto El Fuego entered into force on January 19 after more than fifteen months of a conflict triggered by the Hamás attack of October 7, 2023 against the south of Israelthe deadliest in the history of the country.
During these weeks, this Islamist movement in power in Gaza released 25 hostages and returned the bodies of eight to Israel, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The second phase of this truce, forged by Catar, Egypt and the United States after months of harsh negotiations, should begin on Sunday with the aim of ending the release of hostages in Gaza and putting a definitive end to war.
Egypt announced on Thursday that the parties involved “had initiated intense conversations to discuss the following phases of the truce agreement, amid efforts to ensure the implementation of previously agreed understandings.”
According to their state information service, delegations of Israel, Catar and the United States also participate in these negotiations.
“Critics” days
Max Rodenbeck, an analyst at the International Crisis Center Group, estimates that the second phase of the agreement will not begin on Saturday, but that “the stop the fire will probably not collapse.”
The scenario preferred by Israel is to get the return of more hostages under an extension of the first phase, said Defense Minister Israel Katz.
On the other hand, Hamas presses strong to start the second stage after the wide losses embedded during the devastating war.
In a statement, The group expressed “its full commitment to implement all the provisions of the agreement in all its stages and details” And he claimed that Israel be pressed to start the second phase “without any delay.”
Of the 251 people kidnapped during Hamas’s attack, 58 continue in Gaza. The Israeli army considers that 34 of them are dead.
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said on Friday that the agreement of Alto El Fuego and release of hostages “must be maintained.” “The next few days are critical. The parties should not save efforts to avoid a break in this pact, ”he said in New York.
The truce also allowed the entry of more help to the Palestinian territory, where more than 69% of the buildings were damaged or destroyed, almost the entire displaced population and hunger stalks, according to the United Nations.
Ramadan begins
In Gaza, as in the rest of the Muslim world, this weekend also begins the sacred month of Ramadan.
Among the ruins of a razed neighborhood in the city of Jan Yunis, in southern Gaza, the inhabitants hung the traditional Ramadan lantern.
The war began with the attack of Hamas of October 7 that resulted in the death of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count of the official data.
The military campaign of retaliation of Israel killed more than 48,000 people in the Gaza Strip, according to the data of the Ministry of Health of the territory governed by Hamas, which the UN considers reliable.
In one of the few incidents during this truce, the Israeli army on Friday announced an air attack against two “suspects” that approached their troops in southern Gaza. A Jan Yunis hospital reported the reception of a dead person “in a bombing.”
In Israel, some of the hostages released after more than a year of captivity begin to share their experiences.
“For a year and four months my legs were chained with very, very heavy locks that cut my meat,” said Eli Sharabi, 53, in a televised interview.
The man, released in this first phase of the truce, also reported having been hungry for food deprivation.
In exchange for his return and that of other hostages, Israel released about 1,800 Palestinians from their prisons.
The Israeli branch of doctors for human rights denounced ill -treatment that “arrives at the torture” of some Gazati health workers retained in Israeli centers.
According to this organization, more than 250 medical employees of Gaza were arrested by Israel from the outbreak of war.
Source: Gestion
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