Today is expected to take place the critical meeting of Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trumpwith the US president declaring that he hopes to close an agreement “this week” between Israel and Hamas to declare a ceasefire and release hostages, remaining in the Gaza Strip for 640th day.
The Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump meeting follows indirect negotiations that began on Sunday night (6.7.2025) in Doha with the aim of closing an agreement on the liberation of Israeli hostages and in return for Palestinian prisoners.
“Talks about the mechanisms of implementation” of the possible agreement and the “exchange” of Israeli hostages in Gaza with Palestinian prisoners in Israel, said a Palestinian source aware of what was dismantled, clarifying that the negotiations were conducted.
However, the first round of indirect negotiations in the capital of the Emirates of Qatar was fruitless, reported two Palestinian sources of Reuters news agencyadding that the Israeli delegation has no order allowing it to close agreement.
Donald Trump, however, estimated yesterday that there were “good chances” of closing an agreement.
“We have already taken many hostages, but as far as the remaining hostages are concerned, there will be a good number. We think it will happen this week, “the Republican told reporters.
Before leaving for the US, the Netanyahu He considered that his meeting with President Trump could “contribute to promoting the result we all hope”.
The Republican exerts pressure to declare a new ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, immersed in a devastating humanitarian situation after 21 months of war.
Benjamin Netanyahu also said that he gave his negotiators “clear instructions”: to reach an agreement “on the terms we accept”.
Yesterday, the leader of the Israeli government described “unacceptable” the “changes that Hamas is seeking Make the proposal “initially submitted by the US and transmitted to her by mediators, Egypt and Qatar.
According to Palestinian sources aware of its content, the proposal provides for a ceasefire for 60 daysthe liberation of about half hostages – ten – remaining in life and the surrender of the dead, in exchange for the release of Palestinians held by the Israeli authorities.
The changes that the Palestinian Islamist movement wanted, according to the same sources, relate to the departure of Israeli troops from Gaza, guarantees that hostilities will not start again after these 60 days, and to be re -allowed to the UN and to the UN.
Netanyahu has a “important mission” to Washington, the Israeli president said Isaac Hertzog After a meeting with him yesterday, “to guarantee that he will go on agreement to return all our hostages to their homes.”
Of the 251 people who had been abducted during Hamas’ raid in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, 49 are left in Gaza, but 27 of them have been declared dead by the Israeli army.
During the first ceasefire agreement in November 2023, which lasted a week, and then in the second, for two months at the beginning of the year, many dozen hostages were released in exchange for the release of Palestinian enclosures in Israeli detention centers.
March 18th, as talks on Continuation of the procedure had fallen into a deadlockIsrael resumed war on the Gaza Strip, where Hamas, which is described as a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the EU, took power in 2007.
In the Gaza Strip, the more two million inhabitants of which, forcedly displaced countless times, live in horrible conditions, according to the UN and NGO, at least 26 Palestinians were killed yesterday in Israeli bombings, according to Mahmoud Bassal.
Asked about this information by the French Agency, the Israeli army said he could not comment immediately.
Taking into account the restrictions imposed on the media on the Gaza Strip and the inability to access the field in the midst of war, the AFP notes that it is unable to verify in an independent manner of any part of any side acts in Gaza.
On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that it had counted at least 613 dead during the distribution of assistance to Gaza, between May 26 and June 27, between 509 near the centers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GAF).
At Hamas’ raid in the southern part of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,219 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to a countdown by the French Agency based on official data.
In large -scale Israeli military retaliation military operations have since died at least 57,418 Palestinians, mostly civilians, during the latest data by the Hamas Government Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, which are credible by the UN.