Israel will send the head of Mossad, David Barnea, to Doha this Sunday to resume negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the launch of the hostageswith mediators from the US, Egypt and Qatar. “By order of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of Mossad will go away on Sunday to meet in Doha with CIA chief Bill Burns and the Prime Minister of Qatar,” mentioned a assertion from the Prime Minister’s Office.
Ceasefire talks They have been interrupted for virtually three monthsin the face of the regional escalation that has prolonged the conflict to Lebanon and the deaths of Hamas’s essential leaders, Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwarthe latter final week in southern Gaza. “At the assembly the events will focus on the completely different choices to start negotiations for the launch of the hostages from Hamas captivity, in the context of the newest occasions,” the Israeli word provides.
The heads of Israeli and US intelligence, David Barnea and Bill Burns, will meet with the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohamed bin Abderrahman, who acts as interlocutor of the Islamist groupsince Hamas shouldn’t be straight concerned in the negotiations. The Qatari prime minister introduced this Thursday in a joint press convention in Doha with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, that They have resumed contacts with Hamasafter the demise a week in the past of its high chief, Yahya Sinwar.
“We have been in contact with the representatives of the political workplace (of the Islamist group) in Doha. We have had some conferences with them in latest days,” he indicated. Although it has not been formally confirmed, the presence of the new head of Egypt’s intelligence, Hasan Mahmud Rashad, who final week met in Cairo with the head of the Shin Bet, can be anticipated. -Israel’s inner safety agency-, Ron Bar.
Blinken – on his eleventh tour of the Middle East since October 7, 2023 to promote a ceasefire in Gaza and keep away from a regional escalation that in the finish has occurred – requested to take benefit of this secondafter the demise of Sinwar, a consultant of Hamas hardliners, to advance negotiations.
The head of American diplomacy indicated that the negotiators would meet in the coming days to tackle the truce in Gaza and that, in his conferences with authorities in the area on this new tour, he addressed “concrete concepts” about the “safety, governance and reconstruction of Gaza”, factors in which Washington insisted a lot in latest months.
