THE Benjamin Netanyahu He said yesterday (21.08.2025) that he ordered negotiations to be held to release the “hostages” in the Gaza Strip, apparently reacting to the current proposal to declare a ceasefire in the Palestinian pocket, where his army was struck in the city. Gauzein view of the announced business to understand it.
“I gave instructions to start negotiations immediately to release all our hostages and to end the Gaza war on terms of Israel,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Without clarifying it, he indirectly responded to this statement to the latest proposal by the mediators – Katar, Egypt, US – who predicts a truce in the enclave, which has suffered a huge disaster after 22 months of war with tens of thousands of dead.
Hamas announced on Monday that she had accepted the proposal. It foresees, explained Palestinian sources, a two -month ceasefire, during which they will be released in two years of hostages that had taken Palestinian fighters during the raising in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. 49 are left of 27, 27, 27.
At the same time, Netanyahu said he was heading to “approve the plans” of the staff in order to “take control of the city of Gaza”, his largest Thylakos, which is considered to be one of Hamas’ last forts in order to “defeat”.
Sugging that the launch of the main operation is likely to be immediately imminent, the army announced that it began calling on hospitals and medical officials in the city of Gaza to warn them that it would need to be “in a hurry” to be “in a hurry” to the post of patients and patients.
He added that he informed his interlocutors that he would give them “a place to operate, either in a campaign hospital or in another hospital”.
The Gaza Strip Ministry of Health, part of the Hamas government, rejected the demands of the Israeli Army, stressing that it would further “weaken” “everything left by the health system” and would “deprive more of a million people to have their right to have medical.”
Five divisions, according to the staff, will participate in the operation of the occupation of the city of Gaza and its surroundings. The army also called on them to serve in early September some 60,000 backs to fill in gaps.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Kats approved the operation on Wednesday and now the staff says that his units have taken positions in the region of the city of Gaza.
The attacks on Gaza continue
In the field, the bombings continued in the city of Gaza, especially in the Jambalia and Nazla (northwest) and Sabra (east) sectors – this last district is already pounded for a week, as is its neighboring Zaitun, according to residents.
Reuters journalist on the Israeli side of the border heard very strong explosions in the city of Gaza, at least one after a military aircraft flight.
Tobacco columns were raised in the sky and the rhythm of the explosions accelerated early in the evening.
After getting out of trucks, about a hundred soldiers took seats next to a vehicle about thirty armor on the border, where military activity nevertheless seemed to be the usual.
Gaza Civil Protection spoke of at least 48 dead yesterday by Israel’s fire and bombing. The Ministry of Health spoke of more than 70 dead. As is the case daily, Israel’s army rejected these reports.
The Israeli Security Council, chaired by Netanyahu, approved a plan in early August providing the occupation of the city of Gaza and refugee camps in the central part of the Thylakos, so that the Israeli army will take control of security throughout the area and liberate them.
According to Israeli sources, the army today controls about 75% of the Gaza Strip, where the more than two million inhabitants, besieged, hungry, are facing humanitarian destruction and a danger of “generalized famine”, according to the UN.
The latest proposal by mediators provides for a ceasefire of 60 days, to release 10 hostages alive and return 18 bodies of hostages, in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and the entry of more humanitarian aid to the Palestinian aid, its movement-ramble.
The remaining will be released into a second exchange during the ceasefire, while negotiations will be held in view of a definitive ceasefire.
Relatives of people who continue to be held for the 686th day in the Gaza Strip call on the Netanyahu government to accept this agreement, which “can save hostages”, as Lisai Miran Lavi, the wife of prisoner Homer Miran, put it. Her rejection by the government, she added, “would condemn the living hostages to death and the dead in oblivion.”
Two ceasefire agreements, in November 2023 and early 2025, allowed dozens of hostages, alive or dead, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian enclosures in Israeli detention centers. However, despite the efforts of the mediators, the warring sides have not reached a ceasefire agreement.
At the raid of Hamas’ military arm in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, 1,219 people were killed on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to a countdown by the French Agency based on official data.
In the large -scale Israeli military retaliation military operations have since died at least 62,192 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, in the most recent numbers by the Hamas government ministry, which are credible by the UN.