Netanyahu, no to Hamas request to end war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ call to end the war in Gaza and reach a ceasefire agreement. “The State of Israel cannot accept this,” he said. “We are not ready to accept a situation in which Hamas battalions emerge from their bunkers, regain control of Gaza, rebuild their military infrastructure and return to threaten the citizens of Israel,” Netanyahu told the government, according to a statement from his office.
Israel blocks Al Jazeera, equipment confiscated
Israel’s communications minister has ordered the seizure of Al Jazeera TV’s broadcast equipment after the government decided to shut down the Qatar-based news channel in the country. According to the order issued by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, Israel will seize devices “used to provide the channel’s content”, including editing and routing equipment, cameras, microphones, servers and laptops, as well as wireless transmission equipment and some mobile phones.
ARAB SOURCES: “DRAFT AGREEMENT THE BEST, BUT PRIVATE CALCULATIONS NETANYAHU AND HAMAS ARE WEIGH”
The draft agreement being discussed in Cairo for the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the hostages it is the best since the beginning of negotiations and “acceptance is imminent”. A high source from Araba says it Sky News Arabia, only to then express the fear that “both sides could make a 180 degree turn and return to square one”.
“The private calculations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some Hamas leaders complicate the political decision to approve the long-awaited agreement,” warns the source.
According to the source, “Netanyahu, for his political reasons, could reject the deal, even if the offer presented by Hamas responds to Israeli requests”. Israeli TV Channel 12 reported yesterday that the United States had given Hamas a guarantee that the agreement will bring an end to the war in Gaza.
A circumstance denied by a diplomatic source in Tel Aviv, according to whom “the reports claiming that “Israel has accepted the end of the war as part of the hostage agreement or that Israel will allow the mediators to give guarantees on the end of the war are not true”. war”.