International mediators believe the best hope for calming tensions would be an agreement between Israel and Hamas.
this friday international diplomacy has intensified to prevent the Gaza war turns into a broader regional conflict. The ministers ofe British and French Foreign Affairs They have made a joint trip to Israelwhile the talks on ceasefire in Qatar They enter their second day.
The new push to end the war between Israel and Hamas occurred when the number of Palestinian deaths in Gaza exceeded 40,000, according to Gaza health authorities, and fears remained that Iran and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon to attack Israel in retaliation for the assassinations of the main militant leaders.
International mediators believe that the best way to calm tensions would be an agreement between Israel and Hamas to stop the fighting and ensure the release of Israeli hostages.
In November Hamas signed a ceasefire
In November, Hamas signed a one-week ceasefireand it is believed that around 110 people are still in Gaza, although Israeli authorities believe that a third of them have died.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Sejournedescribed as unacceptable any action that destabilizes the negotiations. Him and his British counterpart, David Lammy They have sent very clear messages to all parties along those lines.
For his part, Israel Katz, Foreign Minister of Israelwarned Iran – which supports Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which have attacked Israel since the Gaza war began– to put an end to the attacks.
“Iran is the head of the axis of evil, and the free world must stop it now before it’s too late,” Katz said in X.
On Thursday, United States, Qatar and Egypt They started in Qatar a new round of ceasefire talks. Hamas, which was not directly involved in Thursday’s talks, accuses Israel of adding new demands to a previous proposal that had American and international support and with which Hamas I had agreed in principle.
An important step, according to the United States
Israel accuses Hamas of add your own new demands. The National Security spokesperson of the White House, John Kirby called the talks an important step. He said that there was a lot of work to do given the complexity of the agreement and that negotiators were focusing on its implementation.
A constructive discussion
A US official briefed on the Thursday’s talks called the discussion “constructive“The official was not authorized to make public comments and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border on October 7killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 250 in Gaza.
