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Biden-Netanyahu: Phone Call on Hostages. What Progress on Gaza Negotiations?

Biden and Netanyahu, telephone conversation on the agreement for the hostages in the hands of Hamas in Gaza. Negotiations in Doha, the hypothesis: 3 thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 alive Israelis and foreigners

Biden-Netanyahu: Phone Call on Hostages. What Progress on Gaza Negotiations?

Joe Biden e Benjamin Netanyahu they had a conversation about theHamas hostage deal in Gaza. The White House reported. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed in a statement that Netanyahu spoke by phone with US President Biden about the progress in negotiations for the release of the hostages and updated him on the mandate given to the negotiating delegation in Doha, in order to promote the release of the kidnapped. The Prime Minister expressed his thanks to President Biden and the President-elect Donald Trump for cooperation.

Biden-Netanyahu, the phone call on hostages and negotiations

The two leaders discussed the negotiations underway in Doha for a hostage deal and the radically changed regional circumstances following the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the weakening of Iran's power in the region. Netanyahu thanked Biden for the United States' extraordinary and ongoing support for Israel's national security and defense.

Israel-Hamas: Where are the negotiations at?

Moreover, the statements bouncing between Washington, Jerusalem and Doha seem to show that this could be the right time to reach an agreement on the release of the hostages held by Hamas for 15 months in Gaza and a ceasefire in the Strip. The outgoing National Security Advisor Jake sullivan commented on the developments of the negotiations and, while acknowledging that "one cannot make predictions", he stated that "we are very close to an agreement, even if there are still things that need to be resolved". He then added that there is "the will to reach an agreement before January 20“, the date of Donald Trump's inauguration at the White House.

Mike Waltz, who will take Sullivan's place, speaking with theABC He said that “Hamas has no choice but to make some kind of deal.” “Let’s have a ceasefire, let’s let our hostages be released. I want to see them walking on a runway before (Trump’s) inauguration,” he said, making clear that “conditions for Gaza will be worse if they wait for the new president to take over the Oval Office.”

Israel-Hamas: 3 prisoners for 33 hostages?

Meanwhile, a rare statement has also arrived to make the progress of the talks clear. Kadora Fares, head of the Committee for Palestinian Prisoners, responsible for the issue of terrorists held in Israeli prisons. Interviewed by the Palestinian Press Agency Moon, Fares explained that Israel will release more than 3.000 Palestinian prisoners, including 200 people sentenced to life imprisonment, and another thousand including minors, women and sick prisoners. In exchange - a high-level political source told Ynet - Hamas must release 33 Israeli and foreign hostages alive.

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