She suggested Cairo Two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange 4 Israeli hostages for some Palestinian prisoners, Egyptian president says Abdel Fattah El-Sisi Sunday.
Israeli sources indicated that Netanyahu He rejected the truce on the grounds that a two-day ceasefire should not occur before the release of Israeli detainees, with negotiations being conducted under fire.
Samir Ghattas, head of the Middle East Forum for Strategic Studies, believes that the Egyptian initiative was aimed at breaking the deadlock in the negotiations, and he agreed to it. Hamas movement Provided that it is linked to something beyond.
Ghattas added to Sky News Arabia that Netanyahu sent a president Mossad To Doha at a time when he announced his rejection of the initiative because he did not want to give a gift to the Democratic Party candidate in the US presidential elections (Kamala Harris) and wanted to reserve this small victory for the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.
He stated, “Netanyahu is not subject to blackmail from anyone Smotrich Ben Gvir because he is the one who leads the extreme right and has internal entitlements related to the conscription law, and external entitlements related to the American elections.”
He pointed out that “Netanyahu wants to create links with Palestinian agents running the Gaza Strip and establish the Kahane company, which was granted $200 million to provide supplies to the Palestinians, establish a puppet authority and recruit agents, and I do not think this matter will succeed.”
He stated that Israel could have arrested him Sinwar (Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar) and obtain information from him regarding Hostages But Netanyahu gave instructions to kill him to prolong the war, on the contrary Lebanon Where leaders were targeted HezbollahBut in Palestine, the goal is to harass the Palestinian people, resettlement, and displace the Palestinians.
He pointed out that Netanyahu rejects the scenario of the next day, insists on war, and demonizes the Hamas movement in order to escape the issues of bribery and corruption and stabilize the Hamas movement in exchange for weakening the authority, in addition to his responsibility for October 7 events.
On the other hand, Moshe Elad, a lecturer at the Western Galilee Academy, said that the Mossad has the authority to negotiate, and there is great pressure inside Israel on Netanyahu.
Elad explained to Sky News Arabia that: Ben Ghafir andSmotrich They no longer have a say today and all decisions can be made without consulting them.
He stressed that Netanyahu is not the only decision-maker Israeli governmentHowever, the government’s point of view in negotiating is to release all hostages at once to prevent manipulation by Hamas.
He considered that Israel does not find anyone to talk to about the truce, and the assassination of Sinwar will not facilitate reaching a ceasefire, but rather will make the matter more difficult because the movement is led by Sinwar’s brother Muhammad.
He pointed out that Hamas wants Israel to leave the Gaza Strip immediately and before anything else, while it wants Israel An alternative authority to replace Hamas.
He stressed that Israel must make concessions to achieve a deal for the hostages, and it would be a shame for it if the hostages do not return, and those who reject the deal are the only extremists.
He accused Hamas of procrastinating in the negotiations, calling on the mediators to put pressure on the movement to reach an agreement, stressing that a Palestinian state will not be established because of what happened on October 7, as he described it.
Regarding the arrests of Palestinians in West Bank andGaza Strip He said that Hamas operations It continues, and therefore Israel makes arrests under Israeli law to find out those responsible for these operations, and Israeli intelligence can be relied upon to find out who belongs to the Hamas movement and who does not.
