Israeli media reported new moves to conclude a prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance and Israel, indicating that conditions are ripe for that deal.

Israeli Channel 12 quoted Israeli sources as saying that there are new movements to conclude a prisoner exchange deal, and that Israel is ready to listen to the mediators’ proposals regarding a new exchange deal.

Israeli Channel 13 also quoted an Israeli source as saying that the conditions were “ripe” for a return to agreements for a new prisoner exchange deal.

For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that the Israeli army's increased pressure will bring proposals regarding new truces that the government is studying.

Gallant added that Israel is open to discussing all possibilities regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, but there will be no role for Hamas in that, as he put it.

Humanitarian truces

Talk about the possible exchange deal comes at a time when the Strategic Policy Coordinator at the US National Security Council, John Kirby, said that reaching a new truce is important in order to release detainees in the Gaza Strip. However, the US State Department said that Washington’s position is to reach humanitarian truces, not a cessation. To shoot in the sector.

A temporary truce began last November 24 and lasted for 7 days between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Israeli occupation, mediated by the State of Qatar and Egyptian-American coordination, during which 80 Israelis were released in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies