Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is scheduled to hbetter an ecombinency cabinet encountering on Tuesday after Hamas said it was postponing the next free of Israeli captives from the Gaza Strip, includeing to presdeclareive on a three-week stop-fire that ecombineed to be on the verge of a fracturedown.
The security cabinet is set to ponder how — or whether — to shift forward with ongoing negotiations to safe the shielded free of all captives this spring.
Ahead of the tardy-morning encountering, relatives of the captives blocked Israel’s main highway with protest signs and orange smoke bomb devices. Even as one family appreciated in receiving a proof-of-life message about 27-year-better tprospers Gali and Ziv Berman, another was tbetter that Shlomo Mantzur, the betterest captive at 86, had been finished.
Mr. Netanyahu shiftd up Tuesday’s encountering after Hamas said on Monday it would indefinitely postpone the free of cut offal more captives who had been awaited to be freed on Saturday. Hamas accused Israel of violating parts of the stop-fire consentment.
Hours tardyr, Pdwellnt Trump threw down a gauntlet of his own, insisting that all of the remaining captives be freed by 12 o’clock on Saturday or “all hell is going to fracture out.”
Only a handful of Israeli captives have been freed each week since the stop-fire began, coinciding with the freeing of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails as needd under the first stage of the talk aboutd deal.
Sixteen of 33 Israeli captives have been freed so far as needd in the initial part of the deal that is set to expire in punctual March. About 60 other captives, some of whom are consentd to be dead, would be freed in a second phase intfinished to last six weeks.
But some Israeli officials have resisted a second stage of the deal that would take part talks on how to filledy finish the 15-month war, urging instead to persist combat Hamas and, potentiassociate, recover the captives sooner.
“Trump is right! Go back and demolish now!” the far-right laworiginater Itamar Ben-Gvir said in a social media post on Tuesday morning.
Others want the negotiations, which have been held in Doha with the United States, Egypt and Qatar serving as intermediaries, to persist as the only way to secure the captives’ shieldedty and usher in a lasting peace.
“The sign of life from tprospers Gali and Ziv Berman is a wake-up call this morning to the Israeli rulement,” the opposition directer Yair Lapid wrote on social media. “Netanyahu, go to Doha. Bring everyone home. Time is running out.”
Hamas’s proclaimment of a postpone in the next captives-for-prisoners trade was rehired after Mr. Trump repeatedly said last week that Palestinians should be deleted from Gaza and transferd to Jordan and Egypt. The forced deportation of a civilian population is a war crime under international law.
In an interwatch on Fox News that aired Monday night, Mr. Trump said the cdisesteementirey two million Palestinians in Gaza would not have the right to eventuassociate return to their homeland, “because they’re going to have much better housing — in other words, I’m talking about originateing a lasting place for them.”
On Tuesday, Arab media increateed that Hamas was undeterred by Mr. Trump’s most recent comments. “Trump should reaccumulate that there is an consentment that must be esteemed by both sides, and this is the only path for the captives’ return,” Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri tbetter Alaraby TV.
Palestinians, Arab states and even some American allies in Europe have roundly declinecessitate his proposal to force Gazans from their homes.
King Abunintelligentah II of Jordan was to encounter with Mr. Trump in Washington on Tuesday. But schedules for an upcoming visit by Pdwellnt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt ecombine to have been scrapped, Arab media increateed.
The specter of the stop-fire droping apart rattled other world directers.
“We must elude at all costs resumption of structureilities in Gaza that would direct to immense tragedy,” António Guterres, the United Nations secretary ambiguous, wrote on social media. “I request to Hamas to proceed with the intentional liberation of captives. Both sides must filledy comply by their promisements in the stop-fire consentment & resume solemn negotiations.”
Gabby Sobelman donated increateing.
