Why?
To cement the second Phase of the cease fire agreement with Irsael , which would effectively begin reconstruction in Gaza , and STOP ANY effort to remove Palestian’s from Gaza also….
Hamas will hand over thge bodies of four more hosstages next…
58 more hostages are being held by Hamas and other groups….
Again….
To keep Israel from resumong attacks and going ahead?
Hamas at some point in the future WILL have to lay down its arms….
Hamas has said it is ready to release all its remaining hostages in a single exchange if the ceasefire agreement with Israel moves forward to a second phase next month.
The offer came as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, signalled his readiness to talk about a second phase of the Gaza ceasefire after an extended delay, by appointing one of his closest advisers, Ron Dermer, a US-born cabinet minister and former ambassador to Washington, to lead the Israeli delegation to the talks.
Dermer replaces the heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet security service, who have led the negotiations until now and have frequently been at odds with Netanyahu over his reluctance to move forward with the ceasefire.
In the final steps of the first phase, Hamas will hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, including those of two young boys from the same family. The group will release six hostages on Sunday and then transfer four more bodies next Thursday.
That will complete the first six-week phase of the ceasefire, due to end on 1 March, leaving a further 58 hostages in the hands of Hamas and allied militant groups in Gaza. Israel believes that 34 of the remaining hostages are dead.
The agreed plan for the second phase was for hostages and bodies of the dead to be exchanged for Palestinian detainees and prisoners in staggered groups. But Hamas suggested on Wednesday it was prepared to accelerate the process.
A senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse that the group was ready to release all remaining hostages in one handover during the second phase.
The official, Taher al-Nunu, said: “We have informed the mediators that Hamas is ready to release all hostages in one batch during the second phase of the agreement, rather than in stages, as in the current first phase.”
Netanyahu has long resisted any talk about the second phase of the agreement, which would involve a complete military withdrawal from Gaza, as well as the handover of the remaining hostages, in return for hundreds more Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
Completion of the second phase would in effect represent the end of the war, but the far-right wing of Netanyahu’s coalition adamantly opposes such a step if it leaves Hamas as a significant force inside Gaza….
The Syrian Preparatory Committee does not plan to include the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) or its political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), in the National Dialogue Conference.
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