The hope of saving the Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas is fading, after the group has refused to accept or extend a ceased the fire of 42 days in the Gaza Strip. For six consecutive weeks, Israel respected the terms of the agreement of January 19, releasing thousands of prisoners accused of terrorism in exchange for the liberation of a limited number of innocent civilians, seized during the brutal attack from Hamas on October 7. During the negotiations, Israel showed openness, unanimously approving the proposal made by the US correspondent Steve Witkoffwhich provided for an extension until April 19, 2025. The plan, which covered both Ramadan and the Jewish Easter, would have guaranteed the immediate liberation of half of the 63 hostages still in the hands of the kidnappers (23 of which still alive). The proposal of Witkoff It represented a concrete attempt to reduce the distances between the parties, which diplomatic sources cited by Reuters defined as “irreconcilable positions” on the conclusion of the wider conflict. However, Hamas He rejected the offer. “There is an agreement that has three phases and the beginning of the negotiations on the second phase on the sixteenth day after the start of the agreement, and we are committed to doing it. Anyone interested in freeing Israeli hostages must force Israel to enter the negotiations on the second phase, “Hamas spokesman said on Saturday Hazem Qassem.
In response this morning the political leaders of Israel They decided to suspend the transfer of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, after the conclusion during the night of the first phase of the fire. The decision to suspend the transfer of humanitarian aid comes following the announcement made last night by the Prime Minister’s Office according to which Israel is ready to extend the ceased the fire in accordance with the scheme proposed by the advance of the President of the United States Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and theIsraeli government has also approved the possibility of recalling up to 400,000 reservist soldiers.
«With the conclusion of the first phase of the agreement on Hamas’ hostages and light of the refusal to accept the Witkoff picture for the continuation of the interviews, to which Israel has joined, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He decided that, starting this morning, the entry of all the assets and supplies in the Gaza Strip will be blocked. Israel will not allow the fire without the release of our hostages. If Hamas persists in his refusal, there will be further consequences, “said the prime minister’s office. In response to the videos of the aid trucks this morning on the border of Gaza, the prime minister’s spokesman said that “the convoys of goods trucks that are currently traveling to Gaza are coming to the pass only to find out that it is closed and that there is no access. Israel will not allow the ceased to continue continuously without the release of our hostages ». Israel estimates that humanitarian aid so far arrived in the Gaza strip will last between four and six months
The president of Otzma Yehudit, Itamar Ben-Gvir, He welcomed the move: «I welcome the decision to stop humanitarian aid, if they are actually implemented. The decision was finally made: better late than never. This should be politics until the last of the hostages are returned. Now it is time to open the doors of hell, to stop electricity and water, to return to the war and, more importantly, not to be satisfied only half of the hostages, but to return to the President’s lastumum Trump: all hostages immediately or hell will start on Gaza, “he added Ben-Gvir. Hamas reacted by stating that “the Israeli decision to stop aid in Gaza is a low -cost extortion, a war crime and a clear attack on the agreement”. Sofortionally, the tragedy is not reduced only to the fact that about 24 hostages still alive are losing their lives in captivity, but is aggravated by the choice of Hamas to privilege the spectacularization of the sacrifice instead of taking on a true role of sacrifice instead of taking on a true role of sacrifice Government, leaving millions of Arab civilians to suffer the consequences of his squalid political game.
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