2024-02-25 15:00:38
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The Israeli War Council decided, on Sunday, to send an Israeli delegation to Qatar in the coming days to continue negotiations on the agreement to release hostages held in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
Sources familiar with the Paris talks said that according to the new framework that was approved, fighting will stop for one day for each detainee released, and in total about six weeks, as 40 hostages held in Gaza are expected to be released.
Under the new agreement, ten Palestinian detainees will be released in exchange for the release of every Israeli detainee, according to the commission.
Israel will also agree that the displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip will return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as its reconstruction.
Possible deal ‘will not prevent the Rafah operation’
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Israeli sources expressed their optimism that understandings would be reached before the month of Ramadan, noting the possibility of holding negotiations in Cairo. In parallel, an Israeli security official confirmed that “the potential deal will not prevent the ground operation in Rafah.”
For his part, Tzachi Hanegbi, National Security Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that “the Israeli army will enter Rafah to eliminate the remaining Hamas brigades.”
Hanegbi added: “We will achieve all the goals in the Gaza Strip and then devote ourselves to the Lebanese file. We will return the residents of the towns adjacent to the northern border to their homes without them being threatened by Hezbollah forces, and we are determined to do this, whether in a diplomatic or military manner.”
Progress in truce talks
Israeli delegates met earlier in Paris with Qatari, Egyptian and American mediators who previously contributed to reaching the only truce so far, which was announced last November, according to which dozens of hostages held in Gaza were released in exchange for Israel’s release of detainees. Palestinians.
Tzachi Hanegbi, the National Security Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the Defense Cabinet received a statement on Saturday from the Israeli delegation that “shows their feeling that they are no longer empty-handed.” He went on to say, “The tone that I have heard in the past hours shows that it is possible to make progress.”
Hanegbi did not provide further details, but he hinted at the possibility of progress being made before the month of Ramadan, which in previous wars had been encouraging in ceasefire efforts.
Hamas previously stipulated the release of thousands of Palestinian detainees and the complete cessation of the war on Gaza in exchange for the release of the 130 hostages it held.
“Destruction that will take decades to repair.”
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The World Health Organization said that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for 142 days, has caused “unprecedented destruction” that will take decades to repair.
World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said that between 70 and 80 percent of civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools, and water facilities, had been destroyed or severely damaged.
He pointed out that it would take decades to repair the infrastructure, including the health care system, which is “taking its last breath in Gaza.”
He added that the United Nations Environment Program estimates that removing the rubble and rubble in Gaza will take from 3 to 12 years.
He also pointed out that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that rehabilitating Gaza’s economy, including rebuilding the health care system, which is in a critical condition, will cost tens of billions of dollars.
Jasarevic stressed that the World Health Organization will continue to implement its operational plan to support hospitals in Gaza, with a request for financial support worth $110 million.
A study conducted by two British and American universities predicted that even if a ceasefire was declared in the Gaza Strip, more than 11,500 people would die there until next August, as a result of epidemics, diseases and injuries.
142 days after the war
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the daily statistical report on the number of dead and wounded as a result of the ongoing Gaza war for the 142nd day, noting that the death toll rose to 29,692, in addition to 69,879 injuries since the seventh of last October.
The Ministry indicated that 86 people were killed and 131 others were injured as a result of the Israeli bombing during the past 24 hours, and “a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and the Israeli army is preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.”
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