end of ceasefire
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that the Israeli army has resumed large-scale attacks on the Gaza Strip. He emphasized that the ceasefire was broken due to the mistake of the Hamas movement, which refused to release 15 Israeli women and two more children held hostage.
“We’re picking up where we left off,” Galant is quoted as saying. Times of Israel).
The minister also described the results of the Israeli military offensive as “very impressive”. “Thousands of terrorists were neutralized in dozens of headquarters” [нанесены удары]”We have hundreds of terabytes of information, hundreds of terrorists were captured and interrogated in Israel,” Galant said.
Hamas Politburo deputy chairman Salih al-Aruri said that he was no longer conducting any negotiations on the ceasefire. “There will be no prisoner exchange until the aggression stops and a comprehensive and final ceasefire is reached,” he said.
On December 1, the Israel Defense Forces announced the resumption of hostilities. According to the IDF, on this day its defense equipment intercepted a rocket launched in the sky from the Gaza Strip. Reuters, citing sources, reported that trucks carrying humanitarian aid were suspended from passing through the Rafah checkpoint. Israelis in the last 24 hours applied An attack was carried out on 400 terrorist targets in the Palestinian region.
on December 2 in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. sound air raid signals.
Feedback from negotiators
The newspaper writes that David Barnea, head of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, recalled the negotiators from Qatar on the orders of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli times. This was because negotiations for a new ceasefire with the Hamas movement had “reached a stalemate”.
“Following the deadlock in the negotiations, Mossad chief David Barnea, on the instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered the negotiator team in Doha to return to Israel.
“The terrorist organization Hamas has not fulfilled its part of the agreement stipulating the release of all children and women on the list sent to Hamas and approved.”
– says a message distributed by the press service from the Prime Minister’s office.
Barnea thanked Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, as well as his counterparts from the United States and Egypt, “for their partnership and tremendous mediation efforts” in freeing the hostages.
Qatar mediated negotiations between Hamas and Israel from the first days of the military conflict and played a key role in arranging the temporary ceasefire.
Release of hostages
On November 24, Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day ceasefire during which hostages and Palestinian prisoners would be exchanged. Later, the ceasefire was extended several times.
Hamas during the humanitarian ceasefire launched 110 hostages. According to the movement, there are no longer women or children among the hostages.
“Israel insists that many women and children continue to be held hostage by us, but we have stated that they are not. We changed the women and children we had. “If there is a case, we do not know or we could not reach it,” he said. Al Jazeera Deputy chairman of the Politburo of the Al Aruri movement.
“The rest of the detainees in the Gaza Strip are soldiers and civilians who served in the occupying army,” he added.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimsIt is stated that Hamas is still holding 136 Israelis hostage, including 17 women and children.
Source: Gazeta
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