Israeli talk about a "settlement" for the deportation of 200 fighters from the Rafah

The newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a senior official from Israel's security cabinet saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. envoy Jared Kushner reached an agreement to evacuate 200 fighters from Hamas who are trapped in the tunnels of Rafah in southern Gaza.

The official explained that the agreement stipulates that Israel will allow the fighters to be transferred safely, without additional details.

He stated that no country has yet agreed to receive them.

Recently, the issue of Palestinian resistance fighters trapped inside the tunnels in the devastated city of Rafah has emerged, becoming central to efforts aimed at moving to the next phase of the ceasefire agreement, which came into effect on October 10.

Israel has exploited the issue of these fighters to create a crisis as part of its efforts to impose obstacles that prevent the swift implementation of the agreement.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), confirmed that these fighters are its members who remained in an area controlled by the occupation forces in Rafah.

The fighters are located in tunnels within the "yellow line" area, which is the boundary to which the occupation forces withdrew under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, and the entire city of Rafah falls within this area.

Israel estimates the number of fighters trapped in the area to be between 150 and 200, while neither Hamas nor Al-Qassam provides any estimates in this regard.