On the day of the sad second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel and the start of the war on the war on Gauzethe Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his conviction that the end of the war in the Gaza Strip is closearguing that Israel emerged from the attack on October 7, 2023 “as the strongest force in the Middle East”.
In an interview with American Podcast and the backdrop of negotiations on ending the Gaza war, Netanyahu explained that the Israeli army “crushed Hamas, even though it has not yet been defeated”, noting that “the operations will continue until this target”.
He added that what started in Gaza “will end in Gaza with the release of prisoners and the end of Hamas’s domination”, stressing that Israel also faced Hezbollah and Syria and “crushed the Iranian nuclear program”.
He still went on to say that Israel developed “the most advanced aggressive weapons on the planet” and shared them with the US, believing that his country “defeated the enemies of America who sought to develop ballistic missiles with nuclear heads”.
As Iran argued, “he now works for the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of up to 8,000 kilometers”.
Finally, Netanyahu noted that his private conversations with US President Donald Trump were “very friendly”, but he said “it does not mean that we agree on everything”.
Positive first conversations with Israel
The indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas To ensure the release of hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and the end of the war in the Gaza Strip began Monday at the Sharm El Sheikha spa town of Egypt, with US President Donald Trump assuring that the Palestinian Islamist movement is prepared to compromise.
The first series of talks between Hamas and the mediators – Egypt, Qatar, USA – Completed in ‘Positive atmosphere’, Early today, Al QaHera News, a television network, considered to be an Egyptian intelligence agency, stated that the negotiations are expected to continue today. The Israeli delegation arrived there yesterday.
Egyptian and Qatar representatives “work with the two parts to create a mechanism” that will allow the release of hostages in exchange for the release of prisoners, had said the same medium earlier.
Conversations have a basis 20 -point plan proposed by US President Trump.
“I think (the negotiation) is going well and I think Hamas received very important things,” the 79 -year -old Republican said yesterday. “We will secure an agreement on Gaza, I’m pretty sure” So, he added.
The negotiations began on the eve of the second anniversary of the unprecedented raid launched by the Hamas military arm in southern areas of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, which as a result of the war.
‘We expect difficult and complex negotiations’, Given that Israel “continues the warfare war,” a source told the French agency close to talks, estimating that “several days” would last.
US President Trump, who ordered to go to Egypt his special envoy to Steve Whitkov and his groom Jar Kousnerrequires progress “fast”.
According to AFP sources aware of talks, the Israeli delegation is expected and Hamas to participate in indirect negotiations in the same building, but in separate rooms, with mediators conveying the messages of one side to another.
This is before a month after the attempted assassination of Hamas negotiators with unprecedented Israeli air bombing in the capital of Qatar.
Head of the team of the Palestinian Islamist movement that went to Egypt is Halil al -Haya, who escaped from that attack – in which his son was killed.