It appeared on Wednesday that President Trump probably still had an agreement to do before he could claim to have negotiated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas to end the devastator War in Gaza. M. Trump said In an article on Tuesday evening on social networks that Israel had “accepted the conditions necessary to finalize” a 60-day ceasefire, and he called on Hamas to accept the agreement, warning the terrorist group designated in the United States and the Israeli that “it will not improve-that will only wake up.”
On Wednesday, Israeli sources told CBS News that there is solid support in the cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the terms of the proposal, Israel did not commit itself yet, stressing that the government had expressed its support for American officials for a proposed framework for a transfer agreement, not a final agreement.
In a press release, Hamas has credited the mediators of Qatar and Egypt for having “exercised intensive efforts to fill the gap between the parties and reaching a framework agreement which will open the way to a serious series of negotiations”.
“We are approaching this with a great sense of responsibility and carrying out national consultations to discuss the proposals presented by the mediators,” said Hamas, reiterating its long -standing calls to a truce that ends the war, sees Israeli forces in Gaza, “and delivers urgency to our people in the Gaza Strip.”
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Trump did not propose any details of the agreement proposed in his post on Tuesday evening, but he said that Qatar and Egypt – who were key partners in the United States while trying to negotiate an agreement to end the almost two year war – “would deliver this final proposal”.
The Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar, in a Publish on social networks On Wednesday, said that there was “a large majority in government and also among people for a manager to disclose hostages. If there is an opportunity to do it – we must not miss it! ”
But this assertion of cohesion may believe that a potentially significant obstacle for Netanyahu while he is preparing to return to Washington this weekend to meet Mr. Trump, who clearly said he wanted to see an agreement To end the war in a few days.
Many Israeli media reported on Wednesday that one of the extreme right members of Netanyahu’s cabinet, Minister of Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, had called the nationalist Minister of Far-Right, Bezalel Smotrich
Neither Smotrich nor Ben-Gvir confirmed any discussion on blocking the agreement, but in a short article on social networks, Ben-Gvir said that the war in Gaza should not finish “a moment before defeating Hamas”. The two men were expressed to reject the peace agreements with Hamas, insisting that the group must be completely destroyed, not negotiated with.
Yair Golan, head of the Israeli Party of Opposition Democrats, accused Smotrich and Ben-Gvir in a social media position of “directing a block to prevent the return of hostages”. He said they “do not deserve to sit around the government table. And whoever continues to allow them to sit there does not deserve to direct Israel for another day. ”
Although the real prospects of Israel and Hamas accept a ceasefire in the short time that Mr. Trump hopes to have remained clear, even the suggestion that peace could be imminent can arouse hopes for the Gazans who risk their lives every day to align for food.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation meets criticism
The Gaza Ministry of Health, managed by Hamas, says that at least 640 civilians have been slaughtered in recent weeks by trying to access desperately necessary humanitarian supplies, including more than 400 on distribution sites managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States and Israeli.
Since he started working in the enclave torn by the war on May 26, GHF faced daily claims of aid seekers killed by Israeli forces as they try to reach his four Hubs in Gaza.
Earlier this week, more than 170 humanitarian groups called for the organization Opadement Directed – which has never revealed its financing or management structure – to be dissolved and all the efforts to help Gaza to reorganize in the long -time United Nations system. These international humanitarian efforts have been widely blocked by Israel since March.
The Israeli army says that it works with GHF to allow a distribution of aid without risk of food and other products stolen by Hamas.
The Trump Administration supported this reasoning and refused to support other means of food dispersion in Gaza, calling for other nations and institutions to work with GHF, which replaced some 400 distribution of international aid in Palestinian territory by only four of its hubs. These hubs are managed by armed American private American security entrepreneurs and the Israeli military controls him.
All the established humanitarian agencies have refused to work with GHF, saying that it forces the Palestinians to dislocate and browse miles to reach its hubs and that it violates fundamental humanitarian principles, but the Trump administration announced its first public support at the end of last week for the group: 30 million dollars in funding.
The State Department would not say, when this funding has been announced, if the funds had already been transferred to the GHF, or to which the United States government comes.
The GHF refused to answer several questions from CBS News on its links with American and Israeli governments and its funding, and it had, until this week, also refused to be interviewed by CBS News about its operations. On Tuesday, however, the director of the GHF, the American Evangelical Reverend Johnnie Moore, former adviser to President Trump on religious issues, accepted an interview via Zoom.
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Our first question concerned the reports that CBS News has received since GHF began its operations, directly from doctors and eyewitnesses, which Israeli soldiers have repeatedly opened fire to unarmed civilians trying to reach its aid centers.
“I do not want to reduce these reports, but we cannot control what is going on outside of our distribution sites,” Moore told CBS News.
Asked how many people died before the GHF changed the operation, Moore called the framing of the “inappropriate” issue and declared that the “total reason of the existing group is to give food to these people so that they can live”.
He repeated his previous calls – and those of the White House – so that the United Nations and its various humanitarian agencies join GHF’s efforts in Gaza.
“We said again and again at the UN, WFP (World Food Program), join us in this effort,” said Moore, before asking for the CBS News correspondent, “with respect, why don’t you join us? I ask you to help us manage the operation if you think there is a better way to do it.”
Asked how GHF was able to verify who exactly receives the help it provides in the field – what Moore has underlined did not reach Hamas – the Reverend answered with a question: “Do you have something positive to say about what we are doing?”
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“Do you think it is acceptable that people die every day while trying to access help?” Isn’t there a better way to do it? ” CBS News asked again.
“We decided that it was worth working in a war area,” said Moore, “as deadly it is, because the Gazans deserve food.”
Moore would not answer questions about the operation of GHF or which finances the organization, alongside the contribution of $ 30 million announced this week by the Trump administration.