An exchange of prisoners between the resistance and Israel during the aggression on Gaza (Al Jazeera)

The Israeli Walla website reported that Israel informed Qatar and Egypt of its refusal to hold another round of talks to exchange prisoners and ceasefire in the Gaza Strip until the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) sends a list of the names of its surviving prisoners.

The website explained that Israel is asking Hamas to provide a "serious response" regarding the number of Palestinian prisoners it demands to be released.

While Israel demands details, Hamas leader Osama Hamdan revealed that until now, negotiations are still taking place within the general framework.

Hamdan explained - in an interview with Al Jazeera Net - that there is no detailed discussion of names or even numbers, while the focus is on a general framework that is discussed until an agreement is reached on it, which indicates the difficulty of the negotiations and the lack of real progress in them.

Israel only wants to exchange prisoners - according to Hamdan's statements - while the resistance demands a complete halt to the aggression, withdrawal from Gaza, the entry of aid, reconstruction, and the return of the displaced to their homes, saying that the prisoner exchange process comes within this context.

American frustration

In a related context, American officials said that there is a growing feeling of pessimism in the White House about reaching a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, despite the contacts made by President Joe Biden and senior officials in his administration with officials in the region yesterday to save the negotiations.

The American NBC News channel quoted these officials as saying that the killing of civilians by occupation bullets yesterday at the Nabulsi roundabout (the flour massacre) in Gaza led to an even worse collapse of trust between the two parties at the negotiating table.

The officials also said that Biden is desperately seeking a truce, but is still unwilling to change his policies toward Israel and place conditions on US aid, as some Democrats are demanding.

This coincided with 28 representatives from the Democratic Party sending a letter to Biden asking him to work to reach a truce in Gaza, and the signatories of the letter said that approving a temporary truce would help in the release of hostages and provide relief to millions of civilians.

Israeli street

In the same regard, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation and the Israeli Kan channel reported that the coordinator of the prisoner file, Major General Reserve Nitzan Alon, said - in closed talks with the families of prisoners held by the resistance in the Gaza Strip - that they must focus their efforts to pressure the political leadership to reach an exchange deal.

In parallel, Israelis demonstrated on Friday in front of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, demanding that Biden pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.

Anatolia News said that the demonstrators carried banners, some of which read: “Mr. Biden, help us save them and return them all home immediately,” in reference to the Israelis detained by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and a number of family members of the Israeli prisoners and their sympathizers participated in the demonstration.

In the same context, a march began on the outskirts of occupied Jerusalem, starting from the Re’im settlement in the Gaza Strip, to demand the government return the prisoners. The demonstrators arrived in Beit Shemesh, 30 kilometers from West Jerusalem, noting that the organizers said that the protest would continue for 4 days.

Netanyahu's government estimates the number of prisoners remaining with the Palestinian factions in Gaza at about 130, but it is likely that some of them were killed.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies