CNN, on Tuesday, quoted two informed sources as saying that the Israeli occupation suggested that Hamas leaders leave the Gaza Strip as part of a broad ceasefire agreement.

CNN linked this to the failure of the Israeli occupation to achieve its declared goal of eliminating Hamas, noting that after about four months of war on Gaza, Israel was unable to arrest any of Hamas’ senior leaders or assassinate any of them in the Strip. While the occupation army estimates indicate that Hamas has lost only about 30 percent of its combat capabilities.

In details, the report said that the proposal to allow Hamas leaders to leave Gaza was discussed during broader talks that include a ceasefire at least twice in recent weeks.

Israeli media, including Channel 13, had previously promoted that Qatar had made a new offer to the Israeli occupation state regarding a deal that included the release of all Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Hamas leaders in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. However, the American network confirmed This offer was put forward for the first time by the head of the Israeli Mossad, David Barnea, in Warsaw last December, when he met with the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Bill Burns, and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, adding that its source was an informed official. Regarding the discussions that took place during the meetings, he said that Blinken presented the proposal again when he visited the Qatari capital at the beginning of this month.

The same official indicated that the Qatari Foreign Minister told his American counterpart that this Israeli idea “will never succeed.”

The website also revealed, citing American and international officials familiar with the mediation efforts, that the involvement of the Israeli occupation and the Hamas movement in the talks appears encouraging, but they stressed that reaching an agreement on a ceasefire and prisoner exchange “is still a long way off.”

On the other hand, the CNN report pointed out that pressure is increasing on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accomplish something, after it was confirmed that his goal of “achieving complete victory” over Hamas has not been achieved, neither from near nor from afar, and because of his government’s inability. To recover prisoners detained in Gaza.

According to a comment by Carnegie Institute researcher Aaron David Miller, Israel “is not achieving its military goals,” noting that the pressure on Netanyahu and his government to return the detainees created a situation that made the occupation ready to accept the departure of Hamas leaders from the Gaza Strip.

A two-month truce in exchange for the release of all prisoners

For its part, the American news site Axios reported that the occupation proposed to Hamas, through the Qatari and Egyptian mediators, a two-month truce in the war, in exchange for the movement’s release of all its prisoners and detainees.

This proposal does not mean the end of the war on Gaza, but rather a second truce after the one that lasted a week and allowed the release of about a hundred prisoners and detainees.

According to Axios, the Israeli proposal stipulates the release of all detainees in Gaza in stages, initially including civilian women and men over the age of 60.

As for the subsequent stages, female soldiers are released, then civilian men under the age of 60, then soldiers, and finally the bodies of prisoners.

Within the framework of the plan, Israel and Hamas must agree in advance on the number of Palestinian prisoners who will be released in exchange for Israeli detainees.

This plan does not foresee an end to the war on Gaza or even a long-term political solution, but rather a redeployment of Israeli occupation forces outside the main cities in the Palestinian Strip and the gradual return of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were displaced from the north to the south of the Strip.