AtmosphereThe Israeli government has approved a temporary extension of the cessation of Gaza for the next six weeks, which covers the Easter periods of Ramadan and Muslim Jew.
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement shortly after the first phase of the fire cessation access to midnight on Saturday.
Netanyahu’s office said that, under a proposal to cease the fire of United States President, United States President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, half of the hostages still Hamas in Gaza, both alive and dead, would be released on the first day.
The remaining hostages would be released « if an agreement is reached on a high fire. »
Hamas did not publicly comment on the last Israeli play.
The Israeli government supported the cessation of fire after a four -hour meeting called by Netanyahu.
The Prime Minister’s office stated that Hamas « has so far refused » to support the Witkoff plan, adding that Israel would immediately begin negotiations if the group changed its position.
The North -American envoy plan forecasts Israel to return to the fight after 42 days if he believed that negotiations in a second phase had failed.
On Friday night, Hamas said he would not accept any extension of the first phase without guarantees of the North -Americans, Qatari and Egyptians that the second phase would end.
Hamas seems determined to remain a force in Gaza, even if you can be willing to deliver the everyday government to other Palestinian actors, Including Palestinian authority in the Western West Israeli, Paul Adams of the BBC reports Jerusalem.
Epa-ee/rex/shutterstockThe first phase of cessation of the fire that came into force on January 19 expired on Saturday.
He stopped 15 months of struggle between Hamas and the Israeli military, allowing the release of 33 Israelis and five Thai hostages for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
But negotiations on the second phase, including the launch of all the remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of Gaza Israeli troops, have hardly begun.
It is believed that there are 24 living hostages, with another 39 alleged deaths.
Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking another 251 hostages.
Israel responded with an aerial and land campaign in the Gaza Strip, during which at least 48,365 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in the territory.
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