A pointless diplomatic mission might have a positive result; an Israeli delegation is said to have arrived in Qatar after Hamas offered new ideas to the mediators on Tuesday, raising hopes for a ceasefire to be reached to put an end to the nine-month conflict in Gaza.
Israeli negotiators, coordinated by Mossad head David Barnea, sat down with Qatari scribes on Friday, and more sessions are expected in the following week. However, Some differences have persisted between the parties, as the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.
The latest one occurred after Hamas stated it presented new ideas to Qatari, Egyptian, and Turkish intermediaries on the issue of the ceasefire and the prisoners’ exchange. A US official said that their propositions were significantly different from the previous stance of Hamas, therefore referring to it as a breakthrough, but challenges exist.
Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha said that the mediators have given a “positive response” to its ideas but clarified that “the official Israeli stand has not been established yet.”
The conflict, however, goes on with Israel bragging of the south and northern Gaza Strip as their targets. Hamas fighters said that their armed wing had killed 10 Israelis in an attack by a pretext of an ambush.
Gaza is still facing a humanitarian calamity as well; people and the EU stated that as Israel ordered more than 250,000 Palestinians to flee eastern Khan Younis, they would face even more misery.
Spectators wait anxiously as the negotiations go on, believing this could be the long-awaited moment when at least the cease-fire will be agreed upon and implemented.
