Hamas being in any position of Power IS THE Main and ONLY Issue in this conflict….
The intransigence IS costing Palestine lives, stavation, and keeping hostage HOSTAGES…
And internal Israeli protests AGAINST their government…..
Qatar’s prime minister says there has been “a bit of progress” in efforts to broker a new ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, but that there was still no “answer for the ultimate question: how to end this war”.
It follows his meeting with the head of Israel’s spy agency on Thursday.
Speaking in Doha, Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan said that Hamas appeared to be more receptive to negotiating a lasting solution to the war.
After rejecting Israel’s latest ceasefire offer more than a week ago, Hamas now seems set on an agreement that would see the release of all the remaining hostages as part of a deal to end hostilities for at least five years.
Hamas has suggested it could consider disarming as part of such a tradeoff, but only if Israel were to pull all its forces out of Gaza. The Israeli government appears to have no intention of doing this.
Israel imposed a complete blockade on Gaza in early March and resumed air and ground attacks later in the month.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says 2,151 Palestinians have been killed since then, including 51 in the 24 hours into Sunday morning.
Fighting between Hamas and Israel has also intensified, with the Israeli military saying an Israeli soldier and a police officer were killed on Friday.
On Thursday, Israel’s Mossad spy agency chief David Barnea met with Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha.
Sheik Mohammed said that there had been “a bit of progress compared to other meetings, yet we need to find an answer for the ultimate question: how to end this war”.
Last week, Hamas rejected an Israeli proposal for a 45-day ceasefire that called for the group’s complete disarmament and the release of 10 of the 59 remaining hostages.
Sheikh Mohammed said that they were “trying to find a breakthrough” but added that Israel and Hamas remained at odds on what a ceasefire would entail.
He said Hamas has agreed to hand over all the remaining hostages in an exchange to an end to the war, but that Israel wants the hostages released without offering a vision on an end to the conflict.
“When you don’t have a common objective, a common goal, between the parties, I believe the opportunities [to end the war] become very thin,” Sheik Mohammed said at a press conference in Doha….
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A Palestinian official familiar with negotiations told the BBC that Hamas has signalled its readiness to hand over governance of Gaza to any Palestinian entity agreed upon “at the national and regional level”. The official said this could be the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) or a newly formed administrative body.
The US has also encouraged the idea of a reformed PA governing Gaza after the war.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has ruled out any role for the PA in Gaza and has said he opposes the formation of a Palestinian state.
On Saturday, PA President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy in the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the PLO said….
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Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah organisation, which dominates the PA, have been bitterly divided for decades, with their rift ensuring that no unified Palestinian leadership in both the West Bank and Gaza has been able to emerge….
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