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Analysts who spoke to the program "Gaza... What's next?" unanimously agreed.

However, the offer presented by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to the mediators is an important step and a leap forward, and that a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is inevitable.

Within the framework of the prisoner exchange and ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas movement presented an offer that included among its most prominent provisions - according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera - a ceasefire in 3 stages, each lasting 42 days, at the end of which the occupation forces would withdraw from Al-Rashid and Salah Al-Din Streets. To facilitate the return of displaced persons and the passage of aid.

The writer and political researcher, Sari Orabi, said that the Hamas movement presented a fully detailed presentation, especially with regard to the details of the first stage, including the movement of the occupation forces and the places they should stay away from, in terms of the amount of aid that should enter the Palestinians, and the arrangements related to the release of prisoners.

He explained that the first stage is not related to the release of all prisoners, because the essential prisoners held by the Hamas movement are postponed to the second stage.

He said that the Hamas movement presented complete humanitarian demands, and that its demands for ceasefire discussions or the completion of an understanding on the ceasefire are a postponement to the second stage and a prelude to the completion of the major prisoner exchange deal between the movement and the occupation, and then the third stage will be related to the exchange of bodies and the start of the reconstruction process.

He pointed out that the fundamental issue for the Hamas movement is a permanent ceasefire, lifting the siege on Gaza, and starting reconstruction, and therefore it does not want a temporary truce or a conditional truce, as the occupation and its American ally want.

In the opinion of Ziad Majed, professor of political science at the American University in Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu anticipated the new round of negotiations and announced his military plan to storm Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, indicating that Netanyahu wants escalation, but is obligated to negotiate as a result of internal and external pressures.

He added that the Hamas movement is turning the proposals submitted to it and the framework visions into a platform for negotiation based on its observations, which is a very important step and a leap forward, noting that the strategy it uses is based on breaking the asymmetry in the negotiating mechanism, but the Israeli occupation is betting on its firepower and believes that every What Hamas is offering is illogical.

The professor of political science at the American University in Paris said that Israel's problem is not only a permanent ceasefire, but it is not concerned with the detailed first stage presented by Hamas, which aims to significantly alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe imposed by the occupation on the Palestinians.

However, a ceasefire in Gaza is inevitable, although Netanyahu is trying to postpone it as much as possible, as Majed said.

Regarding the Israeli position on the demands of the Hamas movement, the academic and expert on Israeli affairs, Mahmoud Yazbak, said that the Israelis consider them illogical, but he pointed out that there is a major blackout in the Israeli press regarding the items presented by Hamas, stressing that the only illogical demand for Netanyahu is to stop... the war.

However, at the popular level, there is great support for the continuation of the exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance, especially from the families of the prisoners.

Source: Al Jazeera