Negotiations on the Gaza hostage and cease-fire agreement are at a critical stage, US media reports based on official sources.
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Director General of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA of Willaim Burns is expected to meet with high officials of Israel, Qatar and Egypt in Rome on Sunday. The aim of the meeting is to finalize the Gaza hostage and cease-fire agreement.
The US media is reporting on it Axios based on US and Israeli official sources.
The Prime Minister of Israel, who is currently visiting the United States Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have committed on Thursday to draw up its updated terms for the contract within two days.
On the other hand, Netanyahu is said to have recently tightened his demands to agree on a ceasefire. According to sources, the President of the United States met with the Prime Minister of Israel Joe Biden advisers have questioned how seriously Netanyahu is pursuing a ceasefire, and to what extent it is a matter of playing for time, to prevent the fall of the Israeli government.
– Netanyahu wants an agreement that is impossible to get. At the moment, he does not agree to be flexible, and therefore we may be on the way to a crisis and not an agreement in the negotiations, an Israeli official commented to Axios.