The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is studying a proposal to give the green light to a truce in the Gaza Stripin which there would be a ceasefire of about 42 days and an exchange of an Israeli hostage for ten Palestinian prisoners, negotiation sources have reported.
Israel continues attacks on Gaza
The Israeli Army continues to bomb Gaza. This Tuesday there were attacks both in the northcenter and south of the Gaza Strip, in which they caused fatal casualties and destroyed infrastructure and weapons, while the Islamist group Hamas studies the truce proposal negotiated in Paris, Palestinian sources report.
In raids and bombings of the air forces in the northern neighborhood of Zaytun, “the forces located a facility manufacturing weapons, rocket launchers and systems used by Hamas in combat,” in addition to killing an unknown number of suspected militants and destroying a tunnel, a military statement detailed today.
In central Gaza, Israeli troops claimed to have eliminated fighters and destroyed, with the help of the engineering corps, “dozens of strategic sites belonging to Hamas”while in the west of Khan Yunis (south) there was new fighting, according to the Army, for the area “adjacent to Israeli communities” close to Gaza.
A truce coinciding with Ramadan
For its part, the Islamist group Hamas is studying the latest draft for a truce, which would last about 42 days. coinciding with Ramadana holy month of peace for Muslims, and in which some 40 Israeli civilians would be released in exchange for some 400 Palestinian prisoners.
Among the Palestinian prisoners there would be sentences life sentenceswho could be deported, according to the same source.
That first phase of the truce would be subject to further negotiationsto free Israeli soldiers, and would also include the gradual return of displaced Gazans from northern Gaza.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced yesterday that he “is hopeful” that Israel and the Hamas movement reach an agreement next March 5just a few days before the start of Ramadan.
“My National Security Advisor tells me that we are close, we are close, but we have not achieved it yet. My hope is that by next Monday we will have a ceasefire,” the president said at a press conference in New York.
For his part, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdanreiterated that “unless the famine in Gaza is stopped and the aggression is put to an end” there will be no truce, he said in a television interview, and he pointed out as an accomplice of the war the Washington Administration, which he accused of ” put pressure” and want to “weaken” Hamas’ demands.
They have already died in the war in Gaza 29,878 peopleafter 96 Gazans died in the last 24 hours, according to data from the local Ministry of Health, while more than 70,200 have been injured since October 7.
The Wafa news agency reported the deaths of an unknown number of Gazans, including women and children, in the neighborhoods of Al Daraj, Al Zaytun and Al Sabra -in Gaza City- and at least 9 civilians after an attack on a home of the Al Zatma family in the center of the city of Rafah, south of the enclave.
At least orFour Gazans died, and dozens were wounded by Israeli bullets and shells, according to Wafa, west of Gaza City; and in drone bombings west of the Nuseirat camp (center).
Civil defense teams and citizens also recovered the bodies of “five civilians from under the rubble” in the north of Khan Yunis (south), details the agency, after a house in the city of Al Qarara was bombed by the army.
