Israel-Hamas conflict: quickly an settlement for the discharge of round fifty hostages?

The place are the negotiations for the discharge of hostages held for greater than a month by Hamas and different factions within the Gaza Strip? This Monday, November 20, kin of kidnapped individuals should meet the“total conflict cupboard”together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Protection Minister Yoav Gallant, to ask ” some solutions “.

Whereas the military of the Jewish state continues to relentlessly shell the Palestinian enclave, inflicting practically 13,000 deaths in response to the Hamas Ministry of Well being, Qatar has positioned itself as a mediator of alternative for the reason that begin of the battle. The phrases of a possible settlement are beginning to take form, stories “le Monde”.

• Round 240 individuals held hostage

Practically 240 individuals, Israelis and foreigners, had been kidnapped throughout the bloody assault perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. They’ve since been held within the Gaza Strip by the Islamist motion and different factions together with Islamic Jihad.

Among the many captives are at the least 34 minors together with 17 kids aged 10, at the least 103 grownup males and 63 ladies, in response to a database compiled by Agence France-Presse on November 14 and which focuses on 206 recognized hostages and presumed alive.

Hamas has thus far launched 4 hostages and a soldier was freed by the Israeli military throughout an incursion into Gaza. Two hostages had been discovered useless by the IDF. On Thursday, November 16, the Israeli military introduced that it had found the physique of Yehudit Weiss, a nurse, close to Al-Chifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis. The following day, the military mentioned it discovered the stays of Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old soldier, whereas looking out a constructing adjoining to the identical hospital.

• Girls and youngsters, the primary to be affected

In keeping with the “Washington Submit”, Israel and Hamas, below the aegis of america and Qatar, have reached an settlement in precept aimed toward releasing round fifty ladies and youngsters held hostage, in trade for a break 5 days in fight. The discharge of the opposite 20 to 25 ladies and youngsters held hostage within the Gaza Strip would rely on the profitable completion of the primary stage. “We’re speaking a couple of break within the multi-day preventing,” Michael Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, confirmed on Sunday on ABC.

In keeping with the “Wall Avenue Journal”, furthermore, the hostages will likely be launched in trade for a similar variety of Palestinian ladies and youngsters who’re among the many 150 to be detained in Israeli prisons, as requested by Hamas.

Yahya Sinouar, the chief of the Islamist motion within the Gaza Strip, lastly calls for, in response to the Axios web site, that Israel droop aerial surveillance for six hours a day in order that Hamas fighters can find, with out being spied on, the hostages with which they misplaced contact throughout the preventing.

• A “shut” settlement?

“We imagine we’re nearer than we now have in all probability been at any time since negotiations started weeks in the past.”defined Jon Finer, deputy director of the American Nationwide Safety Council, on Sunday on CNN.

“The remaining challenges within the negotiations are very minor […]. They’re extra logistical, they’re extra sensible”assured the identical day the Qatari Prime Minister, Mohammed Ben Abderrahmane Al-Thani.