The document that Hamas published via Telegram this morning suggests a 135-day ceasefire in three phases of 45 days each that would include the release of all hostages held by the Islamist group and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. In the first phase – as outlined in the draft already before Netanyahu and Qatari and Egyptian mediators – women, minors, the elderly and the sick would be released in exchange for the release of a yet-to-be-determined number of Palestinian women and minors imprisoned in Israel.
The ceasefire would also increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, where thousands of civilians are suffering from severe lack of basic supplies and hunger. Humanitarian organizations have warned of the need for a ceasefire to prevent aid trucks from being blocked at the border.
The Israeli prime minister analyzed the text together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is in Israel on his fifth trip to the region since the Gaza war began four months ago. A proposal that apparently does not sit well with the Israeli government, which insists that it will not withdraw its troops from Gaza until Hamas is completely destroyed.
The Spanish NGO Hambrecero.es has managed to deliver 40 tons of food and basic products to the population in the Gaza Strip in the last few hours. “More than 2 million people are trapped in an area that represents half of the city of Madrid, with no possibility of leaving, no drinking water and no food. They are starving while being bombed and shelled. It is not a question of politics or religion: it is boys and girls who are dying of hunger, that is why we are where we need to be,” says the president of Hambrecero.es, Álvaro Cuadrado.
According to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, more than 27,700 Palestinians have been killed and more than 67,100 injured since October 7.