Palestine | Negotiations resume in Qatar to seek ceasefire in Gaza
Huda Hegazi, teleSUR correspondent in the Gaza Strip, reports on the latest news from the enclave and the resumed ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel. teleSUR
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00:00On August 15, negotiations resumed again in the Qatari capital of al-Duha, with the participation
00:19of Egypt's and Qatar's intermediaries, as well as the US delegation and the Israeli
00:24delegation, with the purpose and objective of reaching a ceasefire between the movement
00:29of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas and the Israeli entity.
00:37At first, the news was quite positive.
00:39It was assured that there was a clear advance in the negotiations, and another second meeting
00:44and summit were even expected, but this time in the Egyptian capital of al-Qaeda.
00:48But today, the city of Israel has proposed this meeting for the following week.
00:56That is, the meeting that was planned for tomorrow or even for Wednesday has been cancelled
01:00and has been left for the following week.
01:04However, proceeding to postpone this meeting has some negativity, and it has been assured
01:10that the main reason is that the negotiations are still stagnant.
01:15First, it was assured that the negotiations had not been discussed of the demands that
01:21Hamas wanted and of the main points of difference between Israel and the movement, which are
01:26who will take control of the axis of Philadelphia, of the point of Netzarim, in addition to the
01:31border crosses of Rafah and Karim Shalom, and also the delegation.
01:37Israel did not have those broad permissions to be able to decide and to be able to debate,
01:42but only had very limited permissions, which were those given by the Israeli Prime Minister
01:46Benjamin Netanyahu, and supposedly this delegation or the group of professionals that had stayed
01:51in the capital, Qatari, of al-Duha, and then went to Egypt to try to reduce the differences
01:57until the arrival of that summit that was expected for the next Tuesday or Wednesday,
02:01have not been able to achieve anything and today have returned to the occupied territories
02:06without having made any progress around the negotiations.
02:14Also say that today the US Minister Anthony Blinken was in the occupied territories, had
02:18a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, in addition to the US Minister of Foreign
02:23Affairs, and where he assured them of the need to reach a ceasefire with Hamas.
02:31He assured them that in the event that the negotiations are not signed a climate crisis
02:35would break out in everything that is the Middle East, and therefore he has tried to
02:41pressure Israel to accept these negotiations, but nevertheless, according to a statement
02:49issued by Arab Television, which shows what the details of this new proposal have been,
02:54which was issued at the summit of August 15 in the capital, Qatari, of al-Duha, it has
02:59been shown that this new proposal does not benefit or speak of the demands that the Hamas
03:04movement asks.
03:12What this new proposal dictates is an exchange of hostages where Israel must release a number
03:17of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the movement to release a group of Israeli hostages.
03:27Each in one of the specific phases, since this proposal would be divided into 3 phases,
03:36but it does not speak of a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but it speaks of the possibility
03:47of reaching a ceasefire and would be debated in the second phase, that is, we would be
03:52talking about the possibility of debating the ceasefire in the second phase.
04:04Also in this proposal it does not speak of a total withdrawal of the Israeli army from
04:09the Gaza Strip, but it also speaks of the possibility of debating the withdrawal in
04:20the second phase, but that the army would also be under the control of the Axis of
04:25Philadelphia, of the point of Netarem, in addition to the borders of Rapage and Queremshalem,
04:30even if not in person.
04:41But it would be controlling those points.
04:44It does not speak of a free return of the Gazans to the north of the Gaza Strip and
04:47therefore these are the main points of difference and that this new proposal does not dictate
04:52or mention and therefore we would be talking about the fact that these negotiations are
04:56literally useless, it never assures that it will not accept them since they do not satisfy
05:01the needs of the Palestinian people nor the needs of the Palestinian resistance.
05:05It never remains firm in its position that it will only accept the proposal that it signed
05:09on July 2nd and therefore we can say one way or another that the negotiations are on the
05:14verge of failure in the event that Israel continues to affirm its position and that
05:18there is no change in this new proposal.