The American news site Axios, citing Israeli officials, reported that an Israeli delegation will head to Egypt tomorrow in an attempt to support negotiations regarding prisoners held by Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip.

The sources said that the Israeli delegation is expected to include the head of the Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad), David Barnea, the director of the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet), Ronen Bar, and the Israeli army representative in the negotiations, General Nitzan Alon.

According to the same sources, the Director of the CIA, William Burns, the head of the Egyptian Intelligence Service, Abbas Kamel, and the Qatari mediator, are also expected to participate in the negotiations.

It is noteworthy that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel reached a temporary truce with Qatari-Egyptian-American mediation last November 24, which lasted for a week, during which prisoners were exchanged and limited humanitarian aid was brought into Gaza.

Efforts to reach a new deal were renewed late last month, as meetings were held in Paris that resulted in proposals for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange, which were handed over to Hamas for study.

Hamas responded

The movement responded to the proposal of the framework of the truce agreement, as it agreed to a framework that leads to reaching a complete and sustainable truce in 3 stages, each stage lasting 45 days, and including agreement on the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead, ending the siege, and reconstruction.

It also demanded that the complete truce talks be completed before the start of the second phase, and that Israeli forces be ensured outside the borders of the Strip, and that the reconstruction process begin.