Israel offers Hamas 45-day ceasefire, demands hostage release

Hamas said on Monday, April 14 that Israel has sacrificed a high fire of 45 days if it releases half of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, that the United Nations, according to the United Nations, is now in the control of its humanitarian crisis of sausage from war. A Hamas official told AFP that Israel had also demanded that Palestinian militants disarm to ensure the end of Gaza’s war, but that this crossed a “red line.”

The Egyptian mediators approved an Israeli proposal that “includes the release of half of the hostages in the first week of the agreement, an extension of the truce for at least 45 days and the entry of aid,” said the official. “The proposal includes the disarmament of Hamas and all the Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip as a permanent end of the war,” added the official.

The militants took 251 hostages the duration of the attacks of October 7, 2023 that triggered the war. Some 58 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli army says they are dead.

The leaders of Hamas were reviewing the proposal of Alto El Fuego, but the official said that “the position of Hamas and the resistance factions is that the resistance a red and non -negotiable line,” said the official, and said that Hamas’ negotiators were going to Qatar, where here Israel has had. Israel did not immediately comment on Hamas’ statement.

“Hamas informed the mediators that it is willing to any proposal that includes a high permanent fire, a complete Israeli withdrawal of the Gaza Strip and the entry of aid,” said the official. Previously, the united nation warned that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis was coming out of control without the help delivering the territory during the week and the conditions deteriorate rapidly.

Israel, fighting in Gaza from Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, resumed operations in the Palestinian territory in March after the collapse of a high fire fire amid differences in the next phase. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, with Israel blocking humanitarian aid since March 2, before the truce disintegrate. Medical supplies, fuel, water and other essential elements are scarce, says the UN.

“The humanitarian situation is probably the worst that has been in the 18 months elapsed since the outbreak of hostilities,” said the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Ocha). Humanitarian workers had been forced to “ration and reduce deliveries to make the most of the removal of approaching,” said Ocha. At Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis, a doctor, Ahmed al-Farah, said the medical team was working without stopping despite “a shortage in everything.”

‘Urgent need’

The Palestinian President, Mahmud Abbas, and French president Emmanuel Macron asked for a high “urgent” fire in Gaza. In a telephone, Macron and Abbas call “they emphasized the urgent need for a high fire, the acceleration of the delivery of humanitarian aid (and) the rejection of the displacement of the Palestinian people of their lands,” said the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Macron said in X that “France is completely mobilized” to release hostages and stop the fight. He also legalized the “reform” or the Palestinian authority as part of the movements to let the body rule a postwar gaza without Hamas.

Hamas’ senior official, Taher Al-Nunu, indicated that the group was willing to free all hostages in exchange for a “serious prison exchange” and guarantees that Israel would end the war. “The problem is not the number of captives,” said Nunu, “but the occupation is renouncing its commitments, blocking the implementation of the high fire agreement and continuing war.” Speaking after talking to Egyptian mediators and Qatari, he insisted that Hamas would not give up his arms.

The Israeli Ynet news website reported that under a new proposal of Alto El Fuego, Hamas would launch 10 living hostages in exchange for guarantees that Israel would enter the negotiations for a second phase of the high fire.