According to the newspaper Wall Street MagazineThe Palestinian Hamas movement rejected Israel’s offer of a one-week ceasefire in exchange for the release of prisoners. Egyptian officials said Hamas said a ceasefire must come into effect before discussing the release of Israeli hostages.
The newspaper states that Hamas’s refusal does not mean the failure of the negotiations, on the contrary, it is a strategic step that will force Israel to make more serious concessions.
According to the terms of the offer, Israel aimed to release 40 hostages, including women, children and elderly men in need of treatment, in exchange for a temporary halt to land and air operations in the Gaza Strip for a week. Additionally, Israel wanted to allow more humanitarian aid to enter the region.
According to the publication, the military group Islamic Jihad (an organization banned in Russia) is demanding the release of several thousand prisoners in exchange for more than 100 Israeli hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.
The situation in the Middle East has worsened since thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7. More than two hundred hostages were captured.
On this day, Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel and announced the start of Operation Al Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country was at war.
Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah announced its support for Hamas. Rocket attacks began on Israel and Lebanon from both sides. On the afternoon of October 19, the Israeli army announced that fire was opened from Lebanese territory to the country’s border areas. According to the IDF, numerous anti-tank missiles were fired at Kibbutz Manara.
The existence of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah is believed to exist will be open to transportation and interaction According to Bloomberg, based on experts, Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system will be suppressed in the event of a conflict in the Middle East.
Previously Hamas launched first hostages.