Yet as Israeli operations in the Arab enclave continue with full power, Doha discussions to promote peace between Israel and Hamas through the Gaza peace agreement are now taking place.
Qatari and US officials said peace talks started on Thursday in an effort to reach a deal that would be acceptable to both the conflicting groups.
A US official briefed on the discussions in Doha, who declined to be identified told the news agency Reuters, that Thursday’s talks were” constructive”.
” This is important job. We must take this approach to a close, according to US regional security spokesman John Kirby, who spoke to writers at the White House.” The remaining hurdles can be overcome, and we must take this process to a close.
However, Gaza health officials reported separately on Thursday that the death toll it had surpassed 40, 000 people after more than 10 times of fighting.
Discussions involving CIA Director William Burns commenced in Doha, Qatar, aiming to end a conflict that has devastated Gaza, displaced its inhabitants, and caused a severe humanitarian crisis.
John Kirby, a spokeswoman for the US National Security Council, stated that” Now is a tempting start,” but that” there still is a lot of work to do.” Kirby confirmed that Friday is the day the conversations are scheduled to proceed.
Osama Hamdan, a Hamas standard, stated that the organization was not present at the talks on Thursday but that it would if they led to additional commitments from Israel. Hamas demanded the application of a peace plan that US President Joe Biden proposed in late May, Hamdan added.
” If the mediators succeed in forcing the] Israeli] occupation to agree, we would, but so far there’s nothing new”, Hamdan told AFP.
He added that Hamas did not hold off on to long-running conversations that “given He more time to kill the Arab people.”
The only temporary truce has been found in November when Gaza militants freed 105 captives taken in exchange for 240 Arab captives held by Israel.
Hamas’s October 7 assault on southern Israel triggered the present war, resulting in 1, 198 deaths, mostly residents, according to an AFP count of Jewish official statistics. Extremists also seized 251 persons, of whom 111 are also held in Gaza, including 39 whom the army says are useless.
