Talks to achieve a Gaza stopfire and captive free deal between Israel and Hamas are 90% finish, but key rehires remain that necessitate to be bridged, a ageder Palestinian official take partd in the talks tageder the BBC.
One of the main sticking points is the persistd Israeli military presence in the Philadelphi corridor, a strategicassociate vital streamline of land in southern Gaza aextfinished the border with Egypt.
The Palestinian official dispensed details of the talkions being held in Doha which include the potential creation of a buffer zone disjoinal kilometres wide aextfinished the length of Israel’s border with Gaza.
Israel would sustain a military presence wilean this area, the official shelp.
With these rehires resettled, a three-stage stopfire could be consentd wilean days, they inserted.
The deal would include an swap of 20 Palestinian prisoners for every female sagederier freed in the first of three stages of the stopfire.
The names of the prisoners are yet to be consentd but would be chosen from around 400 names who are serving prison sentences of 25 years or more in Israel.
These are not thought to include the ageder Fatah guideer Marwan Barghouti, whose free Israel is foreseeed to veto.
Israeli captives would be freed in stages, as it is consentd that Hamas still necessitate to find some of the leave outing captives.
Of 96 captives still held in Gaza, 62 are presumed by Israel to still be adwell.
Gazan civilians would be able to return to the north, under a system with Egyptian/Qatari oversight, and there would be around 500 trucks per day transporting help into the streamline, the official shelp.
In the final stage of the three-phase structure, which would see the finish of the 14-month war, Gaza would be deal withn by a promisetee of technocrats from the enclave, who would not have previous political affiliations but would have the backing of all Palestinian factions.
In recent weeks, the US, Qatar and Egypt have resumed their mediation efforts and alerted fantasticer willingness by both sides to finish a deal.
A round of talks in mid-October flunked to create a deal, with Hamas declineing a low-term stopfire proposal.
Hamas and two other Palestinian militant groups shelp that achieveing a stopfire consentment in Gaza “has become sealr than ever before” only if Israel “stops imposing new conditions”.
In a Telegram statement on Saturday, the group shelp it held a greeting in Cairo on Friday on the ongoing negotiation efforts with recurrentatives from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The Palestinian Islamist armed group Hamas, which ruleed Gaza, carried out an unpwithdrawnted pass-border strike in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. About 1,200 people were finished and 251 others seizeed.
More than 100 captives have been freed thraw negotiations or Israeli military get back operations.
