Israel will send a delegation to Egypt’s capital city of Cairo for ceasefire talks with Hamas in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, according to a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office late yesterday.
The delegation is expected to arrive in Cairo as early as this weekend, said the statement. The statement also claimed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was the “obstacle” to an agreement.
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri responded to the statement, saying Israel does not want to stop the war and is covering up its crimes with “empty statements.”
Israel launched a large-scale offensive in Gaza to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on October 7, 2023, during which about 1 200 people were killed and more than 200 were taken hostage.
Since then, 39 480 Palestinian people including innocent women and children have been killed and 91,128 others have been injured as a result of relentless Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip.
The prospect for negotiations between Israel and Hamas has been further dampened since the assassination of Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital city of Tehran earlier this week.
Haniyeh, who had been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday, was killed along with his bodyguard early Wednesday when their residence in Tehran was hit in an airstrike, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which said Israel had carried out the attack and vowed “a harsh and painful response. Israel has neither denied nor confirmed its involvement.
Source: eNCA
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