Mediator between Israel and Gaza is “optimistic” after investigating both sides but asks for “concessions”
The Egyptian government was “optimistic” about its prospects this Monday Ceasefire agreement between Israel and Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza StripReiterating our call for Application of two-state solution To end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sama Shukri, who was attending the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, said, “We are optimistic about a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sama Shukri, who was attending the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, said, according to the report of the Egyptian newspaper ‘Al Ahram’. Thus, it is Asked Israel and Hamas to “make concessions” And stressed that “a solution to the Palestinian issue must be developed.” “Concrete measures must be adopted to achieve a two-state solution and prevent the cycle of violence from escalating,” he argued.
“To resolve the Palestinian issue we have to end the crisis in the Gaza Strip,” he defended, adding that the international community has the “mechanisms” to materialize a Palestinian state, although there is a “will”. ” for this. In this sense, he reminded that senior Hamas officials have said that the group will give up its weapons if the two-state solution materializes and have said that the group is directed towards the establishment of a Palestinian state. should be part of a “political process”, as reported by the newspaper ‘Shorouk’.
Shortly before, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Riyadh that the latest proposal presented by Israel is “extraordinarily generous” and expressed hope that the Palestinian Islamic group “will take the right decision.” “The only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas,” he said. Khalil al-Haya, a senior Hamas official, indicated on Saturday that the group had already done so He had in his hand Israel’s latest proposal for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. This also includes the release of people abducted during the attacks on Israeli territory on 7 October. For his part, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Mayed Al Ansari condemned on Sunday that both Hamas and Israel were sabotaging the talks.
“Punishment against all Palestinians”
For his part, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly has stressed that the Israeli offensive against Gaza following the attacks by Hamas on October 7 “This is a punishment not against Hamas, but against all Palestinians.”, According to a statement published by Israel, he lamented, “What happened on October 7 was a nightmare for humanity. The consequences that have come from Israel are unbearable, because all Palestinians in Gaza paid the price of what happened on October 7.” Have been.” State Information Service (SIS).
“Even if a ceasefire agreement is reached and planning for the future begins, it will take years to return to the situation before October 7,” he said, before emphasizing that about 75 percent Medical facilities have been “destroyed”. as well as “more than 70 percent of the infrastructure.” Israel launched its offensive against Gaza following the above attacks on 7 October. They killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped about 240 people.
Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamic group, have reported nearly 34,500 deaths so far, in addition to more than 480 deaths in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the hands of Israeli security forces and attacks by settlers.