Egyptian initiative about long-term calm in Gaza Strip
RAMALLAH, Palestine (North Press) – Egypt proposed an initiative to hold talks in Cairo that would include Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, to ensure a long-term ceasefire, the Israeli TV channel Kan 11 announced on Thursday.
“The talks aim at searching the possibility of reaching a long-term calm in Gaza Strip and reaching a prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel,” the TV channel added.
The Israeli channel reported that an Egyptian General arrived in Tel Aviv last week to discuss the Egyptian initiative and present it to the Israeli side.
Israel stipulated that the talks be held through separate channels and not in parallel, and that the progress of rebuilding Gaza be linked to the issue of prisoners and missing Israelis in the Strip.
According to the channel, no date has been set for these discussions yet.
For its part, the head of Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, stressed that an Egyptian invitation had been sent to the head of the Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, to visit Cairo, pointing out that the visit would take place in the coming days.
As for Haniyeh, he rejected the politicization of the issue of reconstructing Gaza Strip, considering it an acquired right and a humanitarian issue.
In televised statements, Haniyeh welcomed all reconstruction efforts. He pointed out that the “resistance paid a serious blow to the Trump Peace Plan.”
Haniyeh said, the damage affected the “resistance was secondary and did not affect the structure of the factions.”
He pointed out that what Israel called “Hamas underground” and what Haniyeh called “the Jihadist city”, was safe and that Israel had not reached its infrastructure.