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An informed source told that CIA Director Bill Burns will travel to Israel on Wednesday to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials.
On Sunday, news agencies reported that the CIA director went to Doha, where he met with the Qatari Prime Minister to discuss mediation in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Earlier, Tuesday, Doha announced sending a Qatari delegation to Cairo to resume the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas through joint Qatari-Egyptian-American mediation.
Doha, along with Washington and Cairo, has been sponsoring these negotiations for months as part of efforts aimed at stopping hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, Hamas agreed to a proposal for a truce that would lead to a ceasefire and the exchange of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, but an Israeli official told Agence France-Presse that his country was “studying” that proposal, while another Israeli official, speaking to , considered it a “trick” by the Palestinian movement. which controls the Gaza Strip.
Officially… Hamas agrees to the proposal of Egypt and Qatar for a ceasefire
On Monday, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced its acceptance of the ceasefire proposal in Gaza submitted by Egypt and Qatar.
These movements come hours after Israeli tanks took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
The latest round of talks between the mediators and the Palestinian movement concluded in Cairo on Sunday, while Israel and Hamas publicly exchanged blame for the failure to reach an agreement.
In a related context, a US State Department spokesman confirmed that reaching a ceasefire agreement that leads to the release of hostages and allows for an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza remains a top priority for the United States.
The spokesman said in response to a question from Al-Hurra TV channel regarding Washington’s position on the military operation carried out by Israel at the Rafah crossing, “We have repeatedly expressed our views regarding the major operation in Rafah and we believe that the Rafah border crossing must be reopened to the movement of humanitarian aid.”
After the Rafah developments… Cairo hosts the “last chance” meetings
The Egyptian Cairo News Channel reported on Tuesday, citing a high-ranking source, that Cairo is hosting delegations from Qatar, the United States and Hamas with the aim of reaching a comprehensive truce in Gaza, amid the continuation of Israeli military operations in the Palestinian Strip.
He added, “We are working to ensure the continuous flow of humanitarian aid, including the immediate reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing for humanitarian aid. Israel has committed to doing this within at least 24 hours.”
The mediators had wanted Israel to send a delegation to Cairo over the last weekend when Burns was in Egypt, and the mediators were preparing Hamas’s official response to the latest proposal, a diplomat told .The Times of Israel“.
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