“No negotiations” to extend the ceasefire fire of Israel-Hamas, the publication of the hostages

“No negotiations” to extend the ceasefire fire of Israel-Hamas, the publication of the hostages

By Simon Druker

Washington DC (Upi) March 1, 2025

The Palestinian group confirmed that Israel and Hamas have not agreed to continue negotiations on the publication of hostages in Gaza.

The first phase of an agreement that included an armistice ended on Saturday.

The Hamas leaders said they rejected “Israel's wording” to extend the current first phase of the deal for the publication of Geisel.

Last week, Hamas returned the last six hostages that were agreed as part of the first phase of the deal.

Israel delayed the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners until Thursday, after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire stock between the two sides. The corpses of four Israeli hostages were also returned on Thursday.

“[Israel] The aim is to regain his prisoners and at the same time maintain the opportunity to resume aggression against the Gaza Strip, which contradicts the conditions of the agreement, “a Hamas spokesman told CNN in an interview on Saturday.

“The first phase in the manner proposed by the crew is unacceptable for us.”

The spokesman also said that “no negotiations” are currently underway.

Israel has released 1,135 prisoners in the course of six stock exchanges since the first phase of the armistice began on January 25th. Hamas has freed 25 living Israeli hostages.

It is believed that 63 Israeli hostages are still held by Hamas in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli civil servants believe that 32 of them are dead, including the soldier Hadar Goldin, who was captured in 2014.

Hamas published a video on Saturday evening, which is apparently held Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted hard on social media.

“That evening the Hamas Terrorist Organization spread another cruelty propaganda video in which our hostages are forced to get involved in psychological warfare. Israel is not deterred by Hamas Propaganda,” said Netanyahu on X.

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

UN says that Gaza has to keep ceasefire “as the first phase due to the outlet
Gaza City, Palestinian areas (AFP) February 28, 2025-UN-General Secretary Antonio Guterres said on Friday that the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and hostage agreements have to be “” had to take place only hours before a first phase.

His comments came after the Palestinian militant group Hamas asked the international pressure on Israel to enter the next phase of the ceasefire because the negotiations in Cairo were resumed.

The first phase of the ceasefire will expire on Saturday morning after you have stopped for more than 15 months of bombing and fighting in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas.

“The ceasefire and Geisel -Release deal must stop. The coming days are critical. The parties must not save any efforts to avoid breaking up this deal,” said Guterres in New York.

The ceasefire led to the exchange of Hamas hostages in return for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. It also enabled a larger auxiliary flow into the territory, where more than 69 percent of the buildings were damaged or destroyed, almost the entire population was displaced and, according to the United Nations, a widespread hunger occurred due to the war.

But the conversations in a second phase were delayed.

You should start 16 days in the first stage, and an analyst, Max Rodenbeck from the International Crisis Group -Think Tank, did not start the second phase that wants to fight the war on Saturday.

“But I think the ceasefire will probably not collapse,” he said.

The preferred Israeli scenario is to cost more hostages as part of an expansion of the first phase and not in a second phase, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday.

In a statement, Hamas said that “at the end of the first phase of the ceasefire” The group “confirms its full commitment to the implementation of all provisions of the agreement in all phases and details”.

The group called for the global pressure on Israel to “immediately enter the second phase of the agreement”.

Mediator Egypt's state information service said in a statement on Thursday: “The responsible parties have started intensive discussions in order to discuss the next phases of the ceasefire contract, since the implementation of the previously agreed understanding is continuously guaranteed.”

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “instructed the negotiating delegation to travel to Cairo on Thursday,” said his office, shortly after Hamas handed over the remains of Tsachi Idan and three other hostages under the ceasefire, for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli.

– Ramadan begins –

In Gaza and in the Muslim world, the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is also this weekend.

The Gaza team began with the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, which, according to an AFP balance of the official personalities, led to the death of 1,218 people, mainly civilians.

According to the Ministry of Health, Israeli retaliation has killed more than 48,000 people in Gaza Strip in the area led in the Hamas, which the UN considered reliable.

In a relatively rare incident during the ceasefire, Israel's military said on Friday to two “suspects” who approached troops in southern Gaza when a hospital in Khan Yunis said it received the body of a person who was killed in a strike “.

On Friday, thousands of people lined the streets around the Israeli trade center Tel Aviv for the funeral of Idan (49), the body of which returned to Israel the day before.

They organized a memorial service in the Bloomfield Stadium, the home site of Hapoel Tel Aviv, the football club Idan. Many stood in the stands and cried and waved and waved with the red colors of the club next to the national flag.

The Israeli authorities said that Idan was “murdered when he was held hostage in Gaza”.

– 'tied up with chains' –

Israel's prison service said that 643 inmates were released after the Hamas had returned the bodies of the four hostages.

Among them was the longest -reigning Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli prison, Nael Barghouti, who spent more than four decades behind bars, including the murder of an Israeli officer.

Hamas frees 25 living Israeli hostages in the stages and returned the corpses of eight others under the first phase of the ceasefire.

Among the released Eli Sharabi, now 53, his suffering told in a television interview.

“For a year and four months, my legs were tied up with chains with very, very heavy locks that were cut into their meat,” said Sharabi.

He spoke of intensive hunger and food deprivation.

In return for the release of Sharabi and other prisoners, Israel should free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in the first phase. The Hamas officials said AFP that Israel had so far freed about 1,700.

The militants of Gaza also published five Thai hostages outside the conditions of the deal.

Of the 251 hostages that were confiscated during the Hamas attack, 58 are still held in Gaza, including 34 The Israeli military are dead.

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