Jerusalem (AP) – Israel will be ready to stop his war on Hamas during Ramadan’s upcoming Muslim holy month, if a deal has reached a deal to release some hostages organized by terrorists, US President Joe Biden said.
The United States, Egypt and Qatar dialogues are working to broker a ceasefire deal, which in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners to Hamas, some of the dozens of hostages free and see a six -week stop to fight. During the break, talks will continue on the release of the remaining hostages and additional Palestinian prisoners organized by Israel.
Israeli officials said Biden’s comments came as a surprise in the late night talk show filmed on Monday and did not be in coordination with the leadership of the country. A Hamas official played any spirit of progress and said that the group would not soften its demands.
Negotiations were going on in Qatar on Tuesday. A senior Egyptian official has said that the draft deal includes the release of 40 women and old hostages in exchange for 300 Palestinian prisoners – most women, minor and old people.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the talks, the proposed six weeks of stagnation in the fight would allow hundreds of trucks to bring strict requirement in Gaza every day, including hard-hit north.
The beginning of Ramadan, which is expected to be around 10 March, is seen as an informal deadline for the ceasefire deal. This month is the time of religious observation and dawn fasting for hundreds of crores of Muslims worldwide. Israel-Pilstinian tension has erupted in the past during the holy month.
Biden said in an appearance with NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Mayors,” Ramadan is coming and an agreement has been signed by Israeli that they will not engage in activities during Ramadan, so that we can be given time to get all the hostages out. ” ,
In different comments on Monday, Biden said that he hoped that a ceasefire deal could be effective by next week.
At the same time, Biden did not call to end the war, which began with a deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October, when terrorists killed 1,200 people, mostly citizens, and abducted about 250 people, according to Israeli officials.
Israeli officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss sensitive talks with the media, said that Israel immediately wants a deal, but Hamas pursues high demands. He also said that Israel is emphasizing that women soldiers are part of the first group of hostages released under any trusa deal.
Hamas officer Ahmed Abdel-Hadi indicated that optimism on a deal was prematurely.
He said, “Resistance is not interested in giving up any of its demands, and does not fulfill what he proposed,” he requested, “he told Pan-Arab TV channel Al Mayden.
Hamas has earlier demanded that the Israeli war should be eliminated as part of any deal, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “confusion”.
Biden, who has shown hardcore support for Israel throughout the war, opened the door in his comment for a final Israeli land in Rafa city of Southern Gaza along the border with Egypt, where more than 2.3 million people of the enclave have fled under Israeli withdrawal orders.
The possibility of Rafa’s invasion has inspired the global alarm on the fate of the citizens trapped there. Netanyahu has said that a ground operation in Rafa is an indispensable component of Israeli strategy to crush Hamas. This week, the military presented the cabinet approval for the aggressive operational plans, as well as the withdrawal scheme for the citizens there.
Biden said that he believes that Israel has slowed Rafah’s bombing.
He said, “They have to do and they have made a commitment to me that they are going to see that the ability to vacate the vital parts of the rafa, before they take out the remaining Hamas,” he said. “But this is a process.”
According to the Health Ministry at Hamas-Run Gaza, the disastrous wind, sea and ground campaign of Israel in Gaza killed more than 29,700 people, most of them are women and children. This does not distinguish between fighters and citizens in its count.
According to the United Nations, the fight has displaced large swaths of the urban landscape, displacing the population of 80% of the battered enclaves and expressed concern that the famine could be adjacent.
The first and only ceasefire in the war, in late November, about 100 hostages-about the release of women, children and foreign nationals-in exchange for about 240 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, as well as a brief stop in the fight.
Broadly 130 hostages live in Gaza, but Israel says one of them has been killed.
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