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The Israeli media covered the negotiations aimed at a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and concluding a prisoner exchange deal, as well as the possibility of the Israeli army launching a ground operation in the border city of Rafah with Egypt during the month of Ramadan, in addition to field developments and booby-trapping houses in Gaza.

According to the Hebrew channel "Kan 11", if a truce deal is not reached, "the army will head to the camps of the Central Governorate or to Rafah," revealing that there is a major dilemma regarding Rafah in light of the presence of one million and five hundred thousand people in it, and the necessity of evacuating it of the population.

The channel indicated that the War Council has not yet given the army approval for plans for a ground operation in Rafah, but it will be forced to make imminent decisions regarding the continuation of fighting and the expansion of the ground operation during the month of Ramadan, if a deal is not reached with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

For its part, Israeli Channel 12 quoted its military affairs correspondent as saying that there are still gaps between the two sides that have not yet been bridged, especially the standards for the number of prisoners and humanitarian issues in Gaza, despite his acknowledgment of cautious optimism.

Al-Zaytoun neighborhood ambush

The Israeli media also touched on the ambush carried out by the Palestinian resistance against the occupation forces in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, by detonating an explosive device that led to the collapse of the house on the special force, and “the company commander and the detachment commander were killed and 7 soldiers were injured,” according to the Hebrew Channel 13.

The channel revealed that there are a large number of booby-trapped houses in Gaza, so they are being raided because of what it said falls within the framework of “operations to eradicate terrorism, and they take a lot of time.”

She said that Hamas fighters had installed cameras so that they would see the soldiers when they entered the booby-trapped houses, and then detonate explosive devices.

Exploding the previous calm

The Israeli media also discussed the Qatari-Egyptian-American document for the expected exchange deal, which stipulated that 7 Israeli female detainees who were supposed to be released last December, but Tel Aviv refused at the time, would be released.

Channel 13 political program presenter Rafif Druker said that everyone who was involved in the decision to abort the previous truce deal and refused to release the female detainees is a criminal with blood on his hands.

In this context, the former head of the Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service, Mossad, Danny Yatom, described the decision to abort the previous deal as a mistake after “Israeli prisoners continued to rot in Hamas’ captivity.”

Source: Al Jazeera