Hamas and Netanyahu “slaughtered” for failure of prolonged Gaza negotiations

The ‘hot potato’ of failed negotiations is given to and vice versa. Hamas and Netanyahu have blamed and vice versa for the prolonged impasse in negotiations with a view to concluding a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, where, however, a campaign against polio allowed nearly 200,000 children to be vaccinated, according to the WHO. After it was announced, in the weekend, the detection of the bodies of six hostages by the Israeli armed forces, Netanyahu is pressured by many sides to close a truce agreement to release the some 64 hostages remaining in the Palestinian enclave, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centres. The aim is to cease fire to allow the parties to move towards the final end of the war, which on Saturday (07.09.2024) will complete 11 months. “We are trying to find a field of understanding” “Hamas rejected everything,” the Israeli Prime Minister opposed yesterday (04.09.2024) during a press conference. “We try to find a field of understanding to start negotiations (but they (Hamas) refuse, (they say) there is nothing to discuss,” Netanyahu added. The Palestinian Islamist movement on its part insists on being implemented as having a plan presented by US President Joe Biden on 31 May and Hamas announced that it accepts 2 July. “We do not need new proposals,” Hamas stressed today via Telegram, adding that Netanyahu “is using negotiations to prolong the attack on our people.” The Prime Minister of Israel wants Israel’s armed forces to maintain control of the so-called Philadelphia corridor, a narrow neutral zone near the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt, for as long as necessary. This will prevent Hamas from bringing arms to the Palestinian enclave or carrying hostages or its fighters to Egypt through underground tunnels. The Palestinian Islamist movement, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, has been demanding the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the region. For Hamas, Netanyahu’s obsession with maintaining control of the Philadelphia corridor is nothing but a pretext to prevent “the securing of an agreement”. ‘Eligibility’ In Washington, the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, said he believes there are “modests to resolve” the issue, calling on the parties to show “flexibility” and make “necessary retreats”. “We are simply waiting” the hostages “to return alive rather than to coffins,” said Annette Quintron, from kibbutz Beery, who participated in Tel Aviv in one of the protests continuing in their country with a central request to close an agreement. For his part Netanyahu points out that the Philadelphia corridor is far from the only problem. For example, the number of Palestinian prisoners in Israel to be released in exchange for each Israeli hostage released, or the possibility of an Israeli veto in some cases, also “have not been solved”. Qatar, an emeritus that, along with Egypt and the US, is mediated in the indirect negotiations, held yesterday Tuesday that the approach of the Israeli government “truths the facts”, adding that if it continues on this road it will lead to “the end of peace efforts”. The invasion of Hamas’ military arm in the southern part of Israeli territory on October 7, the trigger of this war, resulted in their lives being lost on the Israeli side 1,205 people, in their majority civilians, according to a tally of the French Agency based on official data. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 97 remain in the enclave, but 33 of them have been declared dead by the Israeli army. Israeli large-scale military retaliation operations have so far cost lives to at least 40,861 people in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas Health Ministry. According to the UN, most of the victims were women and children. According to a report released today by Amnesty International, over 90% of the buildings seem to be “damaged or badly damaged” by the Israeli army, as does 59% of agricultural crops, from October 2023 to May 2024 in the Gaza Strip, along a zone 1 to 1.8 km wide, which starts from the wall separating it from Israeli territory. The aim was to create a neutral zone. War crimes investigation For the NGO in the defence of human rights, an international investigation into “war crimes” must be initiated on the part of the Israeli armed forces to “uninexplainable” the destruction of entire Gaza Strip districts. In August, the United Nations estimated that roughly two-thirds of the buildings in the small sea pocket have been completely destroyed or damaged since October 7. “Despite bad conditions” in the Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that it was able to make the first dose of the vaccine against polio to about 187,000 children in its central part. Following the detection of the first case of polio in Gaza after 25 years, a campaign of immunization began on Sunday, with the first vaccinations taking place on Saturday, thanks to “humanist cessations” of hostilities. WHO is expected to start vaccinations today in the southern part of the female, where he wants 340,000 children to be immunized in four days. Then, from 9th to 11th September, the project will be transferred to the northern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile in Toumba, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, where Israeli armed forces continue “anti-terrorist” large-scale operations since August 18, “five people were killed and another injured in an attack on a vehicle,” the Palestinian Red Crescent announced. The Israeli army reported on its part via Telegram that it conducted “three targeted blows against armed terrorists who raised a threat” for its members. Israeli Defence Minister Joav Galland yesterday considered it necessary to use “the entire force” of his army against Palestinian armed movements on the West Bank, a Palestinian region under Israeli occupation since 1967. He explained that he approved the launch of bombings “where necessary, so as to avoid endangering soldiers”. Nearly 40 Palestinians have been killed and 140 others have been injured since Israel’s operation on the West Bank began, according to the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry.