Gaza ceasefire deal hits critical moment

Where is the next? The first phase of six weeks ends in Gaza on Saturday.

Since January 19, 42 days have witnessed its fair share of uncertainty, hope, sadness and anger, but all that should have happened at that time.

The Living and the Dead has been released. Palestinian prisoners liberate.

But negotiations on the second stage, including the launch of all the remaining hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, barely started.

Talks were opened in Cairo on Friday, but the Israeli delegation returned home in the evening.

Reports indicate that the negotiations will continue “at a distance” and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to be scheduled to take place late at night with the delegation, senior ministers and intelligence heads.

For this meeting late on Saturday it was very unusual. But starting in the middle of the morning on Saturday, no details were released.

It seems that Israel is looking to extend the current stage for another six weeks, to restore more hostages and release more Palestinian prisoners, but without withdrawing its forces.

The government here is determined that Hamas, the group responsible for the massacres on October 7, 2023 and takes 251 hostages, must put its arms and abandon any form of power in the Gaza Strip.

Israel also says it is not yet ready to leave the Philadelphi corridor along the Egyptian border – Gaza – a process that should have started on Saturday.

In a statement sent to the correspondents on Friday, an unveiled Israeli official said: “We will not allow the killing of Hamas to wander again in our borders with small trucks and weapons, and we will not allow them to compensate through smuggling.”

It is often believed that such anonymous quotes come directly from the Prime Minister’s office.

Last summer, the efforts made to secure the ceasefire in Gaza were stumbled when Netanyahu insisted that the Israeli forces stationed along the Philadelphi corridor kept the Philadelphi corridor.

On Friday night, Hamas said it would not agree to any extension of the first stage without guarantees from American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators in the end.

Hamas appears to be determined to remain a force in Gaza, even if it is ready to hand over the daily governance of other Palestinian actors, including the Palestinian West Bank, which is based in the West Bank.

Egypt is working on a reconstruction plan in Gaza, as an alternative to Donald Trump’s proposal to take the area and evacuate its entire civilian residents.

But Western diplomats are not optimistic that the plan is scheduled to be revealed at the top of the Arab League in Cairo next Tuesday, has a kind of security arrangements and strong governance that will be necessary to meet the Israeli demands.

This is a critical moment.

Despite all the emotional disturbances in the past few weeks, the Israelis have been expecting the gradual release of the hostages. It is believed that 24 years old, who is still waiting for his release, with 39 others who are supposed to be dead.

The Israelis strongly want them, without a kind of propaganda offers that sparked disgust and angering the entire country.

If the entire process stops now to stop, the general anger – in Hamas and their government – will rise. More protests are planned in the streets, including one on Saturday night at the place in Tel Aviv, which all Israelis now know as a field hostage.

“We demand the return of all the remaining 59 hostages by 50 of the agreement,” reads the invitation from the hostage and follow -up of the missing families HQ.

“Now it is the only chances window – we will not get another.”

The Secretary -General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has formed it, and urged the parties to “not effort to avoid the collapse of this deal.”

There is a widespread belief that the war will start again or later.

It is a dark possibility, for the hostages and a million Palestinians in Gaza trying to restore their lives together in the current fragile peace.

In a place where families are still digging bodies of the rubble, and sometimes with their bare hands, the idea of ​​resuming the conflict that already claimed that tens of thousands of lives are chilling bodies.

The regions in the center of the Gaza Strip, which has survived, will have a poorly worse conflict from any return to war, which makes it difficult to preserve life in this devastating strip from the Earth.