The Palestinian group of Hamas fighters signaled on Thursday that the crisis threatening the termination of the weapon suspension agreement in gas can be avoided despite the uncertainty as to the number of hostages that will be issued on Saturday and misunderstandings about help supplies.
The 42-day suspension of weapons appeared this week close to accusations on both sides of the violations of the contract sealed last month with the help of Egyptian mediators and Katari and US support.
Hamas said that he did not want the contract to collapse, although it rejected what he calls “the language of threats and intimidation” from the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and US president Donald Trump. These leaders said that the suspension of the weapon should be canceled if the hostages are not released.
“Therefore, Hamas confirms his commitment to implementing the contract as signed, including the exchange of prisoners in accordance with a specific schedule,” Hamas said in a statement.
Hamas, whose main Gaza leader, Khalil Al-Hayya, visits Cairo for talks with Egyptian security officials, also said that both Egyptian and Qatar mediators will try to “remove obstacles and close gaps”.
Logistic problems with tents, mobile houses
This week, Hamas accused Israel of not respecting the conditions calling for a huge increase in help and said that he would not give three hostages that would be issued on Saturday until the problem is solved.
In response, Netanyahu ordered to call reserves and threatened with resumption of combat operations, which were detained for almost a month, unless the hostages were returned.
Israeli Minister Avi Dichter, a member of the Netanyahu security office, said an Israeli public radio on Thursday that he does not believe that Hamas will be able to leave the contract.
“There is a contract. They will not be able to give anything less than in the contract, “he said. “I don't believe Hamas may behave differently.”
Egyptian security sources informed Reuters that they expect heavy construction equipment to come on Thursday, and if this happens, Hamas will spend hostages on Saturday.
The distance between Israel and Hamas threatened that their conflict, which devastated gauze and took the Middle East to the edge of a wider regional war.
Egyptian officials and Qatar worked on avoiding failure, and a Palestinian official similar to mediation efforts stated that both sides agreed to suspend weapons and replace hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas said that talks in Cairo focused on such issues as Israel, allowing the entry of mobile houses, tents, medical and fuel materials and heavy machines needed to remove debris.
Salama Marouf, head of the Hamas Media Media Bureau in Gaza, told Reuters only 73,000 out of the required 200,000 tents came to the enclave, and so far no mobile houses have been allowed.
Cogat, an Israeli military agency supervising the supply of help to Gaza, said that so far 400,000 tents have been allowed, while countries aimed at delivering mobile houses have not yet sent them.
International aid, officials confirmed that despite significant logistics problems, help came, although they warned that much more were needed.
“In a sense, we have observed improvement, but certainly the answer is not enough to meet the needs of so many people who encounter so much damage and losses,” said Shaina Low, an official from the Norwegian Council of Refugees based in Jordan Capital, Amman.
She said that there were shelter materials, despite Israeli restrictions on the so -called “double use” materials, which can also be used for military purposes.
US President Donald Trump repeated on Tuesday his vision of displacing people from Gaza, together with King Jordan Abdullah II in Washington on Tuesday, saying that he thinks that Palestinians – who condemned the offer – will welcome his vision.
16 hostages released in the latest break
This week, adding doubts as to the weapon suspension agreement was a hostile reaction in the Arab world to Trump's comments that Palestinians should be transferred from Gaza to allow it to be developed as a property on the waterfront under US control.
The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, will not go to Washington for talks in the White House, as long as the program includes Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, two Egyptian security sources informed Reuters on Thursday.
According to the suspension of weapons, Hamas has so far dismissed 16 Israeli hostages from the first group of 33 children, women and older men, they agreed to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detained at the first stage of the multi -phase agreement.
Hamas also released five Thai -components in an unplanned edition.
Negotiations on the second phase of the agreement, which mediators hoped that they would agree to release the remaining hostages, as well as the full withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from Gaza, were to be on the road, but the Israeli team returned home on Monday, Monday, two days after arrival.
The threat of canceling a 42-day suspension of a weapon, which is the basis of the contract, attracted thousands of Israeli protesters this week, calling on the government to stick to the contract to bring other hostages.
The Israeli army withdrew from the Gaza area known as the Netzarim corridor, which shares the enclave, said Hamas, as he said on Sunday, which was expected on the basis of a weapon suspension agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group of fighters. Thousands of Palestinians moved through the corridor in recent weeks, returning to their homes in the north from southern Gaza, where they were looking for shelter from war.
The war in Gaza broke out after Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed at least 1,200 people, according to Israeli rule, and perceived over 250 recognized as hostages. Several Canada citizens They were killed on October 7.
This caused a constant Israeli reaction, which, according to health officials in Gaza Health, wasted over 48,000 Palestinians.