Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, claimed today to be close to agreeing a truce with Israel amid the Israeli army’s brutal offensive on Gaza, which has already left more than 13,000 Palestinians dead. “The movement has forwarded its response to the brothers in Qatar and to the mediators, and we are getting closer to a truce agreement,” Haniyeh said without elaborating. The intense negotiations to reach a truce between Hamas and Israel have been led by Qatar, where the Palestinian group’s political wing has an office and where Haniyeh himself lives.
The deal would include the release of some 240 Israeli and foreign hostages captured in the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israeli territory on 7 October, not including military personnel; in return, some 300 Palestinian prisoners – mainly women and children – would be released by Israel, which would also allow 300 truckloads of food and medicine into Gaza. Last Sunday, the Qatari prime minister announced that an agreement based on the release of some of the hostages in exchange for a temporary cessation of hostilities was pending only on “minor” practical issues.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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