Progress Made in Talks on Gaza Ceasefire: Report
The negotiations are underway with the mediation of Qatar, the report said.
Al Jazeera quoted informed sources as saying that the talks are moving forward rapidly.
Earlier, Qatari Foreign Minister for Regional Affairs Mohammad bin Abdul Aziz al-Khalifi had said that in case of a cessation of war, all civilian prisoners being kept by Hamas could be freed in a few days.
Last Friday, in response to Qatar’s efforts for peace, Hamas freed two American women taken prisoner during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.
On Thursday, an Israeli radio station revealed that the Tel Aviv regime has sent a message to mediators, saying it is ready to pay a large sum of money for the release of prisoners being kept by Hamas.
Meanwhile, Al-Arabiya news network in a report cited informed sources as saying that Israel has offered a ceasefire to Hamas in return for the release of all Israeli prisoners and the bodies of those killed but the resistance movement has rejected the offer.
Hamas has demanded the release of all Palestinian prisoners but Israel has yet to respond to the demand, the report said.
The network added that negotiations between Hamas and Israeli with the mediation of Qatar and Egypt are underway.
The Zionist regime has been waging a relentless war against Gaza since October 7, when Hamas and its fellow Gaza-based resistance movement of the Islamic Jihad launched their biggest operation against the occupying entity in years.
The surprise Palestinian offensive, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, came in response to the Israeli regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
Israel then launched its brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip. The death toll in Gaza has reached over 7,400 with more than 20,500 wounded.
Tel Aviv has, meanwhile, been threatening to launch a ground invasion against the coastal territory.
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