Humanitarian Truce Agreement: Egyptian Mediation between Hamas and Israel

2023-11-22 17:47:00

Agencies Wednesday, November 22, 2023 07:47 PM

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that 7 Palestinians were killed in the Tulkarm camp in the northern West Bank by Israeli occupation army bullets.

It also announced that the number of casualties in Gaza had risen to 14,532, including more than 6,000 children.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that a young man was killed by occupation bullets in Nablus.

Over the course of more than two weeks, I witnessed Cairo Several discussions and meetings took place between officials from the Israeli side and the Palestinian Hamas movement, in full coordination with the United States of America and Qatari cooperation. These efforts resulted in a deal described as historic, between the Palestinian sides represented by the Hamas movement and Israel, by approving a humanitarian truce to spare Palestinian blood, followed by an exchange of prisoners and detainees.

Coordination comes Egyptian The American-Qatari, with the aim of overcoming all obstacles to the completion of the armistice agreement and the prisoner exchange deal, and on the other hand, as an extension of the Egyptian role over decades in the Palestinian issue, through which it succeeded in stopping all Israeli wars on the Gaza Strip, alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people, introducing aid and healing the wound. The oppressed Palestinian people, and a return to the political track on the basis of the decisions of international legitimacy.

The agreement obligates the two parties to a truce for a period of 4 days, according to which a deal will be concluded to exchange prisoners between the resistance factions and the Israeli side, and to stop all military actions by the Israeli occupation army in all areas of Gaza, and stop the movement of its military vehicles penetrating into the Strip, according to what the Hamas movement announced in its press statement. Wednesday dawn.

In general, the most prominent items agreed upon by the two parties are: the entry of hundreds of trucks for humanitarian, relief, medical and fuel aid into all areas of the Gaza Strip, without exception in the north and south, and the release of 50 women and children detained by the occupation, in exchange for the release of 150 women. Children of the Palestinian people from Israeli occupation prisons under the age of 19 years, all according to seniority.

The agreement also includes stopping air traffic in southern Gaza for four days, and stopping air traffic in the northern Gaza Strip for 6 hours a day from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, according to a Hamas statement.

Hamas confirmed that during the truce period, the Israeli occupation is committed not to attack or arrest anyone in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and to guarantee the freedom of movement of Palestinians from the north to the south of the Strip along Salah al-Din Street.

The Egyptian position seeking calm is motivated by concern for the stability of the entire region, as well as protecting Egyptian national security, and Egyptian communications have not stopped to date, in order to push efforts to implement the terms of the agreement.

These diplomatic efforts, represented by the role of mediation, are not strange to Egypt. Years ago, they became one of the Egyptian tools to restore calm to the Palestinian street. Over the past decades, the Egyptian state has succeeded in halting the fire and returning the Strip to security calm in all five Israeli wars in the Gaza Strip. (2008, 2012, 2014, 2021, 2022), and during the brutal October aggression, she played a pivotal role in preventing the shedding of more innocent blood. She denounced the policy of collective punishment of women and children and called for pressure from the international community for a ceasefire.

In parallel, Cairo succeeded – despite the Israeli obstacles – in opening the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side, through an agreement that extracted it after extensive consultations and meetings, and Egyptian diplomatic movements succeeded in reopening the crossing from the Palestinian side after completing an agreement between the United States of America, Israel and the Palestinian side, and introducing… A number of aid trucks were sent to Gaza, transporting critically ill patients, including children, and then allowing foreign nationals and dual nationals to cross. To this day, aid trucks are still crossing and receiving critical cases, including children.

I had luck Egyptian mediation With Arab and international praise and welcome, the world began to count on the implementation of its provisions to relieve the suffering of the Palestinians. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership welcomed, on Wednesday, Humanitarian Truce AgreementThey renewed the call for a comprehensive cessation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.

The United States of America welcomed the agreement reached between the movement agitation The Palestinian Authority and Israel regarding the release of a number of hostages held in… Gazaexpressing her appreciation for the role Egypt…and the international praise continues.

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