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The Israeli media focused its discussions on the issues that prevent reaching a prisoner exchange deal at this stage, and on a French proposal in the Security Council for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and an American proposal regarding Rafah.

According to Suleiman Maswad, political affairs correspondent for Kan 11, the issues in dispute with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) relate to the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, the terms of the exchange of prisoners whose standards have not been specified, increasing the amounts of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and also providing guarantees to stop the the war.

He indicates that the heads of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) and the Israeli internal security service (Shin Bet) will join the negotiations, which means that there is progress in the negotiations.

As for Israel Hasson, former deputy head of the Shin Bet, he asked in a discussion session on Channel 12, saying: “Will Israel give up the northern Gaza Strip as a future bargaining chip?”, indicating that Israel has actually given up the northern Gaza Strip.

Regarding France’s proposal to the UN Security Council for a ceasefire in Gaza, Moria Asraf Wallberg, political affairs correspondent for Channel 13, said that this proposal will lead to new tension between Israel and the United States of America in the coming days.

She stated that the French project includes a call for an immediate ceasefire during the month of Ramadan, but it does not link the ceasefire to the release of prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance. She added that Israel is not satisfied with the wording of the French draft.

Strategic defeat

For his part, Ofer Shelah, a senior researcher at the National Security Institute at Tel Aviv University, believed that “Israel needs a prisoner exchange deal in order to build the mechanism that will end the war,” stressing that this war, at its current pace, will lead to a defeat that will reverberate for years, and that the beneficiary Of the current situation is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

He added - in a discussion on Channel 12 - "Israel stands on the threshold of a historic strategic defeat, because the axis of resistance is watching and sees that we will soon be facing it alone, without the United States and without a regional alliance."

Regarding the Rafah issue, Itay Blumenthal, military affairs correspondent on Kan 11, revealed that the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Brown, this week presented a proposal to Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, which he expects the Israeli army to implement.

The American proposal includes "the use of advanced technology on the border with Egypt, closing the border with technological surveillance that includes cameras and sensors, isolating Rafah and besieging it by Israeli army forces by land and sea, focused army raids based on intelligence information, and establishing a joint intelligence room for operations in the south of the Gaza Strip."

Source: Al Jazeera