The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is considering a proposal that would give it the green light a ceasefire in the Gaza StripAccording to negotiating sources, there will be a ceasefire lasting around 42 days and an exchange of one Israeli hostage for ten Palestinian prisoners.
Israel continues its attacks on Gaza
The Israeli army continues to bomb Gaza. There was this Tuesday attacks both in the northin the center and south of the Gaza Strip, where they caused fatal casualties and destroyed infrastructure and weapons, as the Islamist group Hamas investigates the ceasefire proposal negotiated in Paris, Palestinian sources report.
In raids and bombings A military statement added that in the northern district of Zaytun, forces “located a facility producing weapons, rocket launchers and systems used by Hamas in combat,” and killed an unknown number of suspected militants destroyed a tunnel today.
In the center of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops said they had eliminated and destroyed militants with the help of the Corps of Engineers. “Dozens of Hamas strategic locations”while in the west of Khan Yunis (south), new fighting broke out over the area “adjacent to Israeli communities” near Gaza, according to the army.
A ceasefire that coincides with Ramadan
For its part, the Islamist group Hamas is examining the latest draft ceasefire, which is expected to last around 42 days. coincides with Ramadana holy month of peace for Muslims in which about 40 Israeli civilians would be released in exchange for about 400 Palestinian prisoners.
There would be punishments among the Palestinian prisoners life sentenceswho, according to the same source, could be deported.
The first phase of the ceasefire would be Subject to further negotiationsto free Israeli soldiers, and would also include the gradual return of displaced Gazans from the northern Gaza Strip.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced yesterday that he was “hopeful” that Israel and the Hamas movement reach an agreement on March 5thjust a few days before the start of Ramadan.
“My national security adviser tells me we are close, we are close, but we are not there yet. My hope is that we have a ceasefire by next Monday,” the president said at a news conference in New York.
For his part, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdanreiterated that there will be no ceasefire “as long as the famine in Gaza is not stopped and the aggression is not stopped,” he said in a television interview, pointing out that the Washington government, which he accused of being an accomplice to the war want to “exert pressure” and “weaken” Hamas’ demands.
They have already died in the war in Gaza 29,878 peopleafter 96 Gazans died in the past 24 hours and more than 70,200 were injured since October 7, according to the local health ministry.
The Wafa news agency reported the deaths of an unknown number of Gazans, including women and children, in the neighborhood of Al Daraj, Al Zaytun and Al Sabra -in Gaza City- and at least 9 civilians after an attack on a home belonging to the Al Zatma family in the center of the city of Rafah, south of the enclave.
At least orFour Gazans diedAccording to Wafa, dozens were injured by Israeli bullets and shells west of Gaza City; and in drone strikes west of the Nuseirat camp (center).
Civil defense teams and citizens also recovered the bodies of “five civilians under the rubble” in the north of Khan Yunis (South), the agency reports, after a house in the town of Al Qarara was bombed by the army.