The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, assured that the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, welcomed the truce pact in Gaza that will allow the release of 33 hostages, but insisted that both agree that it is of a “temporary ceasefire.”
In the first phase of the agreement, Israel and Hamas They agreed to a six-week ceasefire, in which there will be a gradual exchange of 33 hostages for more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, during which time negotiations for a second phase will begin. in which the liberation of all those kidnapped would be completed and progress would be made in ending the war.
The ceasefire will come into force from today and the release of three hostages and about 90 prisoners was scheduled, although their identities have not been revealed, which has been a point of friction between both parties.
Netanyahu insisted that both the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, like the still president Joe Biden, supported “Israel’s right to fight again if the negotiations on the second phase go nowhere.”
“I really appreciate this. “I also appreciate President Trump’s decision to lift all restrictions on the supply of essential weapons and ammunition to the State of Israel,” he said.
“If we have to resume fighting, we will do it in new ways and with very great power,” the Israeli threatened.
Netanyahu’s message seeks to calm the most radical wing of Israeli politics, which sought to derail the ceasefire agreement.
Time to help Palestinians, says Hamas
The Islamist group Hamas assured a few hours before the ceasefire agreement with Israel begins in the Gaza Strip, which The “duty now is to immediately end the siege and provide aid and shelter” to the gaseousnearly 90% displaced from their homes in a Palestinian enclave in ruins after more than 15 months of Israeli offensive.
The postwar plan presented by the United States It envisions a reformed Palestinian National Authority, under the control of Mahmoud Abbas’ nationalist Fatah party that governs pockets of the occupied West Bank, to take charge of the Gaza Strip after the war.
And Israel is categorically opposed to Hamas continuing to exercise any government over the Gaza Strip.
In its statement, Hamas once again celebrated the multiple attack on October 7, 2023 that triggered the war with Israel, in which at least 46,800 Palestinians have died after the extremist group killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 251 people.
