According to media reports, this is an adapted version of a previously negotiated proposal by the US specialist Steve Witkoff. This provides for a 60-day ceasefire, while the ten-living hostages are released in return for Palestinian prisoners.
Netanyahu has already approved the plan to take Gaza, but at the same time promised new negotiations with Hamas. He ordered “immediately taking negotiations on the release of all of our hostages and the end of the war on conditions that are acceptable for Israel,” he said recently. He did not go into the Hamas offer.
“Our children have been captured in Gaza for 687 days,” said Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, before the military headquarters in Tel Aviv. “I contact the people of Israel: Netanyahu can still sign a deal that brings ten living hostages back and 18 corpses,” said Zangauker. If the prime minister does this, he could immediately negotiate the return of the remaining hostages in return for an end to the war, she said.
The woman accused the Prime Minister of torpedoing an agreement with Hamas: “Instead of agreeing to a deal, he gallops in the direction of taking Gaza.” Netanyahu condemn the hostages to death and the people of Israel to an eternal, unnecessary war. “We only stay a few more days to stop this,” said Zangauker. “When Gaza begins, there will be no deal. It is now or never.”
Israeli soldiers had already advanced to the suburbs of the coastal city. Palestinian eyewitnesses have now reported that soldiers were also spotted in the Sabra district, especially near a school building. Israeli ground forces had been in use in the district since the beginning of the Gaza War almost two years ago. On request, the Israeli army announced that one was not expressed on the positions of their soldiers.
