A ceasefire is proposed for Gaza for less than a month, and for Lebanon for 60 days, news agency sources close to the negotiations say.
13:16•Updated 13:26
Israel is about to propose a ceasefire to Hamas, the extremist organization that controls Gaza, the sources of the news agency AFP say.
The cease-fire proposal has been negotiated by the head of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad in Doha, Qatar David Barneadirector of the US Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA Bill Burns and the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.
According to a source close to the AFP negotiations, a ceasefire is proposed “for less than a month”. It includes an agreement on the exchange of prisoners and humanitarian aid to Gaza.
– US officials believe that the short ceasefire creates the conditions for a possible longer-term agreement, the source said.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz there is a broad consensus in the country’s defense administration that hostilities in Gaza and Lebanon are coming to an end, and that Israel has achieved a large part of the objectives set for its operations.
However, according to the newspaper, Israel’s condition is that Hamas releases all the hostages it holds in Gaza.
According to Haaretz’s analysis, Israel’s military leadership believes that Hamas and Hezbollah are ready for an agreement with Israel, as Israel’s military operations have caused them such significant losses.
According to the newspaper’s information, the United States is the president Joe Biden ambassador of peace by Amos Hochstein proposed a cease-fire in Lebanon even before next week’s presidential election in the United States. According to news agency information, the duration of the ceasefire is proposed to be 60 days.
The US proposal contains points that, according to Haaretz, make it more favorable for Israel than the UN agreement that ended the war in 2006.
According to the country’s health authorities, nearly 1,800 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel’s ground offensive began.
More than 43,000 people have already died in Gaza during the war. The figure is based on information from the Ministry of Health, controlled by the extremist organization Hamas, which several Western aid organizations and the UN consider reliable, but whose veracity Israel has denied.