The Egyptian Cairo News Channel reported on Tuesday evening, May 7, 2024, “all parties agree” to return to the negotiating track regarding the Gaza Strip.
This came according to what the channel reported from an unnamed high-level source, the day after Hamas accepted a Qatari-Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
According to the same source, “there is an agreement between all parties to return to the negotiating track (regarding the truce agreement in the Gaza Strip).”
Earlier on Tuesday evening, Cairo News reported, citing an unnamed high-level source, that the Gaza truce talks were “continuing,” in the presence of delegations from Doha, Washington, and Hamas, in addition to the Egyptian security delegation.
Earlier Tuesday, the Israeli negotiating delegation arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Tuesday evening, amid demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv demanding that it be granted greater powers in order to reach a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised speech, reaffirmed his country’s rejection of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange proposal approved by Hamas on Monday, stressing his adherence to the ground military operation on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli army took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah land crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which is the main corridor for humanitarian aid. Which led to it being closed in both directions.
With the mediation of Qatar, Egypt and the United States, the Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel have been conducting faltering indirect negotiations for months to reach an agreement to exchange prisoners and stop the war on Gaza that broke out on October 7, 2023.
