Washington/Doha/Cairo: US negotiators have prepared a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. In the coming days, this new proposal can be presented by the White House regarding the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas and the Gaza ceasefire. Reuters has made this claim quoting 2 US and 2 Egyptian officials.
According to the US official, this new draft has been prepared to end the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and to make the talks going on for months under the mediation of the US, Qatar and Egypt meaningful. A senior official of the Biden administration said that most of the points have been agreed upon. But the negotiators are still trying to find a solution to 2 complex points. The official, on the condition of anonymity, said that Israel demands that the presence of Israeli forces be allowed to remain in the buffer zone of southern Gaza bordering Egypt and the Philadelphia corridor and a special person be authorized who can work for the exchange between the hostages held by Hamas and the Palestinian hostages in Israel.
A new proposal may come next week
According to the US official, this proposal being prepared for a ceasefire in Gaza may come next week or even before that. He said that we believe that the time is over. So you should not be surprised if the revised draft comes this week. The Biden administration official said that the killing of 6 hostages by Hamas last weekend, whose bodies were recovered by the Israeli army, this incident complicated our peace efforts.
Now we have to do this work as soon as possible. Let us tell you that CIA Director William Burns is leading the American negotiators. This includes a small group of senior US officials, the White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The negotiators have a very strong impression that a ceasefire is slipping away.
