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Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-19:34

  • Middle East Members of the Israeli forces attack a West Bank hospital disguised as doctors and patients

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The war in the Gaza Strip turned 116 days this Tuesday under growing hopes

regarding the proposal for a

multi-phase truce outlined in the meeting held last Sunday in Paris by the intelligence chiefs of the US, Israel and Egypt and the prime minister. Qatar All of them are waiting for the response from the Islamist group Hamas, which on the other hand, early in the morning, lost one of its members of the armed wing when he was shot by Israeli agents who entered the Jenin hospital

disguised as doctors and women.

.


Following Israel's initial green light to the ceasefire framework, according to leaks in Israeli and American media, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah announced that his group is "

studying the proposal and is open to all ideas

" that would end the ceasefire. the massive offensive in the Gaza Strip. "The priority is to stop the brutal aggression and the complete withdrawal of the occupation forces," Haniyah indicated that he will hold consultations this Wednesday in Cairo, where he breathes optimism. According to him, the answer will be "soon"

although the last word belongs to the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahia Sinwar

.


First phase

The first phase would include a 45-day ceasefire, the mass release of Palestinian prisoners (including those convicted of murder),

the significant increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza

and the release of 35 to 40 kidnapped people (women, elderly and sick) of the 136 still in captivity since the attack on October 7 in Israel. The second and third phases establish the release of young Israelis kidnapped at the Nova music festival and of the soldiers and finally of adults, soldiers and corpses. In exchange,

Hamas would receive a longer truce break

and numerous prisoners, including those convicted of serious attacks. Their number has yet to be agreed upon, although Hamas hopes there will be thousands and perhaps all those in Israeli prisons.


What was cooked in Paris, if it is maintained with the same recipe,

would have a difficult digestion in Jerusalem,

where the most ultra-nationalist sector in Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition opposes the lasting cessation of the war against Hamas and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners. "Reckless agreement = dismantlement of the Government," warned far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir on network and the opposition's security network, it would be an enormous challenge in their attempt to remain in power and avoid elections.

"I hear statements about all kinds of agreements, so I want to make it clear: we will not end this war without meeting the objectives which are the elimination of Hamas, the return of all our abductees and

the guarantee that Gaza no longer represents a threat to Israel

," Netanyahu clarified, warning: "We will not remove the Army from the Strip or release thousands of terrorists." His words provoked criticism among some families of kidnapped people as they were formulated at important moments in the negotiation.

daily raids


The 7-O attack has also caused an increase in the number of Israeli operations against militias in the West Bank with almost daily raids. But what was seen at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin is not routine. Disguised as locals (

health workers or a woman with a baby chair

), agents from an undercover unit entered the health center and went to the room where Mohamed Jalamneh (Hamas) and the brothers Mohamed and Basel Ghazawi (Jihad) were hiding. Islamic). After shooting the three members of the Jenin Brigade with weapons fitted with silencers,

they left the hospital in a 10-minute lethal and surgical operation

by special forces from the Police, the internal secret service and the Army. "Jalamneh was in contact with Hamas abroad, transferred weapons and ammunition to terrorists to promote armed attacks and planned an imminent attack inspired by the October 7 massacre," they said in a statement in which they denounced "another example of the cynical use of civilian areas and hospitals as shelters and human shields by terrorist organizations.


The images captured by the hospital's security camera - typical of the Fauda series - were seen in a radically different way by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which defined the operation as a "

new occupation massacre and war crime

." The ANP called on the UN to "put an end to the daily crimes committed by the occupation against our people and health centers in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."