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Gaza ceasefire talks arrive in Cairo, Hamas says it will not directly participate in peace talks

2024-08-25

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A new round of ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip continued in Cairo, the capital of Egypt this weekend.Negotiators from Israel, the United States, Qatar and Egypt will attend the meeting. A delegation from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) arrived in Cairo on the 24th, but will not directly participate in the negotiations.
Izzat Rishik, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau, said in a statement on the 24th that Hamas will listen to the progress of the ceasefire negotiations and the opinions of the mediators.
Izzat Rishik, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau, said on the 24th that at the invitation of the Egyptian and Qatari mediators, a delegation led by senior Hamas member Khalil Haya arrived in Cairo, the capital of Egypt that day and met with the Egyptian mediators on the latest ceasefire negotiation proposal.Hamas said it would not directly participate in the negotiations, but would listen to the progress of the negotiations and the opinions of the mediators.Lishke confirmed that Hamas promised to abide by and implement the agreement reached by the UN Security Council resolution on July 2, and urged the international community to put pressure on Israel to abide by the agreement and stop obstructing the realization of the ceasefire in Gaza. Egypt handed over the revised terms of the "Philadelphia Corridor" and the Rafah crossing on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to Hamas on the 23rd.Hamas has previously issued a statement saying that the "Philadelphia Corridor" and the central Gaza occupied by Israel are "Internal inspectionThe "Rim Corridor" is the crux of the negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still creating obstacles to a ceasefire agreement in an attempt to undermine the efforts of mediators.
According to the Israeli Times on the 24th,The Israeli delegation called for an increase in the number of Israelis released each week from three to five in the first six-week ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.Hamas has not responded to this yet. Some media reported that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had a disagreement with the Israeli negotiating delegation on the issue of stationing troops in the "Philadelphia Corridor". Netanyahu insisted on controlling the "Philadelphia Corridor" and demanded that troops continue to be stationed there, but the Israeli negotiating delegation hoped to make some concessions on this issue.
A new round of ceasefire talks in the Gaza Strip was held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on the 15th and 16th of this month.Negotiators from Israel, the United States, Qatar and Egypt attended the meeting, while Hamas did not send a representative. As the talks did not achieve a breakthrough, the parties are scheduled to continue negotiations in Cairo this week. Some media quoted sources as saying that Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed will attend the ceasefire talks in the Gaza Strip held in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, on the same day.
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