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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending a delegation to Qatar to continue hostage and Gaza ceasefire negotiations, his office announced Thursday.
Professional-level representatives from the Israel Security Agency (ISA), the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel's foreign intelligence agency, known as Mossad, will travel to Qatar's capital Doha for the talks, it said. statement.
Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas have continued even as formal negotiations have been deadlocked for months, as US President Joe Biden's administration pushed for a deal.
A diplomatic source familiar with the matter told CNN in December that the deal is broadly the same as the proposal presented by Biden in early 2024.
The first phase will last six weeks and includes "the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas of Gaza" and "the release of a number of hostages, including women, the elderly, the injured in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners." ", said the American president.
"What has changed is that Israeli forces are likely to remain in Gaza temporarily" when the first phase of an agreement begins, the diplomatic source said, namely on the strip of land on the Gaza-Egypt border, called the Philadelphia Corridor, and in an area that bisects the belt, known as the Netzarim Corridor.
Israel's demand that its troops remain along the Philadelphia corridor and Hamas's insistence that they withdraw was a major reason for the collapse of talks in August.
Months later, in November, Qatar announced it was ending its role as a ceasefire broker due to the parties' unwillingness to reach an agreement.
Both sides have blamed the other for stalling talks last week, when Hamas said Israel had imposed "new issues and conditions" on the terms of a deal and Netanyahu accused Hamas of "rejecting understanding".
However, sources within Hamas and Israel expressed cautious optimism in December about the prospects of reaching a deal.
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