Gaza Ceasefire Deal hits a critical moment

Where next? The first six -week phase of the Gaza ends on Saturday.

The 42 days since January 19 have recorded their share of uncertainty, hope, grief and anger, but everything that should have happened during this time happened.

Israeli hostages – the living and the dead – were published. Palestinian prisoners freed.

Negotiations on phase two, including the publication of all remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, have hardly started.

The talks were opened in Cairo on Friday, but the Israel delegation returned home in the evening.

According to reports, the negotiations “in the distance” would continue and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should hold late -evening consultations with the delegation, the high -ranking ministers and the chief of intelligence.

So that such a meeting took place late at the Sabbath, it was very unusual. There were no statements from the consultations, reporting that they would continue on Saturday evening.

Israel seems to extend the current phase for another six weeks in order to regain more hostages and released more Palestinian prisoners without withdrawing his troops.

The government here is firmly convinced that Hamas, the group responsible for the massacres on October 7, 2023 and the intake of 251 hostages, set their weapons and give up any form of authority in the Gaza Strip.

Israel also says that it is not yet ready to leave the Philadelphi corridor along the border between Egypt -Gaza -a process that should have started on Saturday.

“We will not allow the Hamas murderers to roam our borders with Pickup trucks and weapons again, and we will not allow them to resume smuggling again,” said an unarmed Israeli official in a statement sent on Friday.

It is often assumed that an anonymous quotes comes directly from the prime minister's office.

Last summer, the efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza when Netanyahu insisted on keeping Israeli troops along the Philadelphi corridor.

On Friday evening, Hamas said that it would not agree to the expansion of the first phase 1 without guarantees by Americans, Katari and Egyptian mediators, which would finally take place two.

Hamas seems to be determined to stay in Gaza, even if it could be ready to hand over the daily government to other Palestinian actors, including the Palestinian authority in the West Hunter.

Egypt worked on a reconstruction plan for Gaza Strip, as an alternative to Donald Trump's proposal to take over the area and to evacuate its entire civilian population.

But Western diplomats are not optimistic that the plan, which will be presented next Tuesday at a summit of the Arab league in Cairo, has the type of robust security and governance agreements that will be necessary to meet the requirements of Israeli requirements.

This is a critical moment.

In all emotional turbulence of the past few weeks, Israelis have expected the gradual publication of hostages. It is believed that 24 is alive and is still waiting to be freed.

Israelis absolutely want them all back without the type of propaganda displays that have disgusted and made the whole country angry.

If the entire process now comes to a standstill, public anger – in the Hamas and its own government – will assemble. Other street protests are planned, including one on Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, which all Israelis now know as hostages of hostage.

“We are calling for the return of all 59 remaining hostages by the 50th day of the agreement,” says the hostage of hostages and the HQ for missing families.

“Now our only window is the opportunity – we will not get any other.”

UN Secretary General António Guterres “asked the parties not to save any efforts to avoid a collapse of this deal”.

On Saturday evening, the Israelis were once again horrified by the sight that hostages in front of the cameras were shown in a video published by Hamas.

In the last in a long series of cruel, shocking videos published in the past 16 months, five Israeli hostages can be seen, two of them blurry with their faces.

Two of the hostages, Isiir Horn and Sagui Dekel Chen, were published two weeks ago.

In the video, Isiir shows how he says goodbye to his younger brother Eisan and suggests that the scene was shot shortly before Iair and Sagui was published.

The emotions are raw and the scene is deeply worrying, both brothers in tears and Eisan advocate Benjamin Netanyahu to stick to the Ceasefire deal and publish all remaining hostages.

The video is clearly designed again in such a way that they play on the frayed feelings of the Israeli public and the pile of pressure on the Israeli Prime Minister.

In a declaration published by his office, Netanyahu accused Hamas of “producing another cruelty propaganda video in which our hostages are forced to get involved in psychological warfare”.

According to the explanation, Israel would not be deterred by the Hamas propaganda.

“We will continue to act relentlessly for the return of all of our hostages and until all the goals of the war.”

There is a widespread belief that the war begins sooner or later.

It is a dark view of the hostage and two million Palestinians in Gaza who try to bring their lives back together in the current fragile peace.

At a place where families still dig body out of the ruins, sometimes with bare hands, the idea of ​​resuming a conflict that has already claimed tens of thousands of human life is to draw.

Areas in the middle of the Gaza Strip, which have so far escaped the worst conflict, would probably suffer from every return to war, which makes it even more difficult to maintain life in this devastated land strip.