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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned Hamas on Tuesday if the hostages were not released at noon on Saturday, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip war would end and that Israeli troops would resume ” Intense fights ”.
Netanyahu said that Hamas’ threat on Monday to postpone the next cycle of hostage versions was equivalent to a decision to violate the cease-fire agreement. Netanyahu did not specify how many hostages should be released to arrest a renewed war. The Prime Minister’s office refused to confirm the number of hostages to which he was referring.
His statements echoed President Trump’s ultimatum on Monday evening in Hamas, which indicates that if all the remaining Israeli hostages had not been released from Gaza at 12 noon on Saturday, then the ceasefire agreement with Israel should be canceled and “all hell will burst.”
Originally, three Israelis were to be released this week in the last exchange of prison hostages, as required by the ceasefire agreement to end the war that started with the attack Directed by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023. Most of it so far, the exchanges have taken place on Saturday.
Until now, 16 of the 33 Israeli hostages which should be released in the first phase of this ceasefire have been released. About 60 other hostages, some of which should be dead, were to be released later this spring in the second phase of the agreement.
In a video published after a four -hour meeting with his security firm on Tuesday, Netanyahu said that he and his best advisers had been shocked by the emaciated appearances of three Israeli men who were released last Saturday.
“The decision I adopted in the cabinet, unanimously, is as follows: if Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end and the FDI will take up fights Intense until Hamas is definitively defeated, “Netanyahu said in the video, referring to Israeli defense forces.
Netanyahu also reiterated his order on Monday evening to strengthen the troops in Gaza and its surroundings, but did not specifically say that she planned to recover a territory from which Israel had recently withdrawn. “This operation is currently underway,” said Netanyahu. “It will be completed as soon as possible.”
In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Israeli army said it was moving reservists among the troops who would be part of the operation.
In its threat Monday to delay the next hostage series to be released, Hamas accused Israel of having violated parts of the ceasefire agreement, including by slowing sufficient humanitarian aid to Gaza and its surroundings. Israel denied the complaint.
Tuesday evening, Hamas said in a statement that he was attached to the agreement “as long as the occupation adheres.” The press release added: “We point out that the occupation is the part that has not completed its commitments, and it is responsible for any complications or delay.”
But more broadly, Hamas was furious by Mr. Trump’s repeated proposal to move around two million Palestinians from Gaza and rebuild the territory torn by the war in the “Riviera du Middle East”.
Trump also said that residents of the enclave would not be allowed to return once. The forced deportation of a civilian population is a war crime under international law.
After the attack on Hamas in 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 250 others kidnapped in Gaza, Israel had bombed the territory, aimed at decimating activists. About 48,000 Palestinians were killed during the fighting, according to Gazan health officials, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Millions of Palestinians have also been moved to the enclave, and many return to ruined neighborhoods.
Trump said that he would “conclude” Jordan and Egypt to conclude the Palestinians – a decision which, according to analysts, would destabilize the two countries, and which was categorically rejected by their leaders.
Tuesday, Egypt said in a statement published by a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which he intended to present in the United States a “complete vision of the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip” which “guarantees The Palestinian people remain in their country of origin ”. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi previously deleted temporary plans to visit Mr. Trump in Washington until further notice.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, meeting Mr. Trump in the White House on Tuesday, said: “I think the fact is, how to do this work in a way that is good for everyone. Obviously, we must examine the best interests of the United States, inhabitants of the region, especially for my people in Jordan. »»
He said Jordan was ready to accept 2,000 Palestinian children with cancer or very sick “right away”. Trump called him “a beautiful gesture”.
The insistence of Mr. Trump in the fact that the United States had the power to “take” Gaza and that other countries in the region would absorb the Palestinians who live there ignited the anger of the Arab states in the Middle East and Even some American allies in Europe. This also raised fears in Israel that Mr. Netanyahu now has a political evacuation hatch to end the cease-fire negotiations and in place of the war.
Hamas, in a statement on Tuesday, described Mr. Trump’s broader proposal to withdraw the Gazans from “ethnic cleaning”.
Responding to Mr. Netanyahu on Tuesday, a group representing the hostage families urged him to continue diplomatic talks.
“You have made the decision to bring all our hostages back to home thanks to an agreement,” said the hostage forum and families who have disappeared in a press release. “We must not go back. We cannot allow hostages to waste captivity. “He concluded:” Complete the complete negotiations immediately and bring back each last hostage with the greatest emergency. “
The first phase of the ceasefire agreement was concluded last month between Israel and Hamas and was to expire on March 2. Some Israeli officials opposed a second stage in the agreement which would include discussions on how to end the war, urging the government in place so that the army continues to fight Hamas.
“Either all the hostages are published by Saturday – more phases, more games – or we will open the doors of hell to them, and that means no electricity, no water, no fuel, no Humanitarian aid “, Bezalel Smotrich, the Minister of Ultranationalist Finance, said on social networks After the meeting of the security firm on Tuesday.
Others want negotiations, which have been held in Doha with the United States, Egypt and Qatar serving as intermediaries, continue to inaugurate lasting peace.
“Netanyahu, go to Doha,” the chief of the opposition Yair Lapid on Tuesday on social networks. “Bring everyone back to the house. Time runs out.
The cease-fire agreement was already on fragile land before Mr. Netanyahu’s warning on Tuesday, as well as the Hamas and Trump duel threats that led. With the right-wing government of Netanyahu in danger, if the war ends with Hamas still in control in Gaza, it was widely planned in Israel that it would try to delay the grip to a permanent ceasefire .
Some world leaders were already preparing on Tuesday in the midst of the signs he collapsed.
“We must avoid at all costs the resumption of hostilities in Gaza which would cause immense tragedy”, ” exhorted António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations. “I appeal to Hamas to proceed to the planned release of the hostages. The two parties must fully respect their commitments in the cease-fire agreement and resume serious negotiations. »»
The reports were brought by Patrick Kingsley,, Gabby Sobelman,, Natan Odenheimer,, Ephrat Livni And Aaron Boxerman.
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