Wall Street Journal: A Gaza ceasefire is unlikely under Biden

According to Isna, the Zionist regime repeatedly obstructs the negotiation process, and Hamas renewed its insistence that Tel Aviv commit to a permane ceasefire, an issue that the Zionists have long rejected.

The lack of progress in the ceasefire for the war that the Zionist regime has waged in Gaza and other areas since October 7 and has claimed the lives of more than 45,000 Palestinians is a blow to the Democratic Preside Joe Biden’s team, which has spe considerable time and political capital. It has invested in fruitless pressure for an agreeme.

In the occupied territories, the families of the Zionist prisoners put a lot of pressure on the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, to reach an agreeme that would guaraee their freedom, arguing that their lives and well-being are endangered every day of captivity.

After the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance reached a cease-fire with Tel Aviv in late November, hopes for a deal rose in Gaza, with mediators hoping it could lead to another deal. to move At that time, Hamas told the mediators that it would like to postpone the discussion on a permane end to the conflict in Gaza uil the next round of negotiations, and raised the hope that in exchange for a halt conflicts, at least some of the prisoners should be released.

According to mediators, the parties were considering a 60-day ceasefire period that would lead to the release of 30 Zionist prisoners in Gaza.

In exchange, they said, the Israeli regime would release Palestinian prisoners and allow more humanitarian aid to flow io Gaza, according to the Wall Street Journal. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said after meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem in mid-December that he thinks an agreeme on the release of prisoners and a ceasefire in Gaza is close.

But the negotiations stalled as the details deepened and both sides hardened their positions.

According to the Wall Street Journal, mediators said the Israeli regime insisted on receiving only live prisoners in any exchange and refused to release some Palestinian prisoners sought by Hamas, while the Palestinian resistance group called for an end to the conflict. Giving to the war revived.

Netanyahu’s office declined a request for comme, but has publicly accused Hamas of breaking its commitmes. Hamas also accused the Zionist regime of changing the terms of its demands, but said that although the negotiations have been postponed, they have not yet failed. The spokesperson of the US State Departme did not respond to a request for comme.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said last Friday: “We will coinue to work on this issue as much as we can to try to get a cease-fire agreeme before we leave office.” “It’s because of obstruction or refusal to move on any of these details that we’re still not done,” he added.

An American official said that the structure of the possible agreeme has not changed since the spring, but the most importa issue that now separates the two sides is about the Zionist prisoners and the Palestinian prisoners. The defeat underscores the persistence of mistrust and rift between the two sides despite more than a year of war and mohs of efforts by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to reach an agreeme.

According to Palestinian health officials, more than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the October 7 attacks. Also, the humanitarian situation has become extremely complicated and the heavy attacks of the Zionists in the north of the Gaza Strip have coinued.

Arab mediators said they expect both sides to return to the negotiating table after a new administration takes office in Washington. At the same time, US Preside-elect Donald Trump said in a threatening tone on the “Truth Social” social network that if the Zionist prisoners are not released before he takes office in January, “I will raise hell in the Middle East.”

The Zionist regime says that 96 prisoners remain in Gaza, most of whom live in the occupied territories. They include dual nationals and at least 30 captives that Tel Aviv has determined are no longer alive. Four more captives taken before October 7, 2023, bring their total to 100.

Hamas has not yet provided a complete list of Zionist prisoners to the mediators and has said that it needs more time and a pause in the war to confirm their location and conditions.

According to the mediators, this Palestinian resistance moveme is now asking the United States, Qatar and Egypt to guaraee that negotiations for a permane ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza will coinue after the completion of the initial agreeme.

Most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people have been displaced by the war, with many living in makeshift tes near the coast in southern Gaza. As the temperature drops and successive storms hit the region, Gazans say that the conditions in the camps are getting tougher and more Palestinian children are dying every day from the cold and lack of medicine and equipme.

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