Biden expects a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday, while Hamas is preparing to release 40 hostages in exchange for 400 Palestinian prisoners.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said he is “hopeful” that an agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will be reached by next Monday, while Hamas is studying a pause of about 40 days in fighting and exchanges . Dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

“My national security adviser tells me we are close, we are close, but we are not there yet. My hope is that by next Monday we will have a ceasefire,” the President told reporters in New York this Monday.

Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, had already said in an interview on CNN this Sunday that the United States, Israel, Egypt and Qatar had reached an agreement on “the basic lines” to facilitate a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Israeli hostage exchange for Gaza and Palestinian prisoners.

Biden made the comments while visiting a New York ice cream parlor, chocolate and mint cone in hand, with television host Seth Meyers, whose show ‘Late Night with Steh Meyers’ marks 10 years. Shortly before, a group of protesters gathered at Rockefeller Center, where Biden went this Monday, to record an interview with the presenter, to protest the war in Gaza and ask for a ceasefire.

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The Israeli army has reported attacks in the north, center and south of the Gaza Strip this Tuesday, in which they have caused fatal casualties and destroyed infrastructure and weapons, while Hamas has rejected a ceasefire proposal following talks in Paris. Is studying. Source. As these sources confirmed to EFE, this is the latest draft of the ceasefire that will last for about 42 days coinciding with Ramadan, the holy month of peace for Muslims, and which will include the release of about 400 Israeli civilians in exchange for about 400 Palestinian prisoners. Will be done. ,

According to the same source, Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences could be deported. This first phase of the ceasefire will be conditional on new upcoming negotiations to release Israeli troops, and will also include the gradual return of displaced Gazans from northern Gaza.

This Monday, sources close to talks in Doha between the delegations of Qatar, Egypt, the United States, Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas told EFE that negotiations to agree on a hostage exchange in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners “are moving forward.” “Has been.”

The talks in Doha followed a round of consultations held on Friday and Saturday in Paris between Israel, the US, Egypt and Qatar to define the terms of a new agreement.

Since the war began, Israel and Hamas reached only a one-week ceasefire agreement in late November, which allowed the release of 105 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.

Nearly 30,000 Gazans have been killed in the more than four-month-long war in the strip, which began on October 7 after an attack by Hamas’s armed wing on Israeli territory, killing about 1,200 and wounding another 230. Was kidnapped.