Israeli media reported progress in the ongoing negotiations in the Qatari capital, Doha, regarding a prisoner exchange deal between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel, after about 11 months of ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip.

Israeli security and military leaders confirm that the conditions are suitable for concluding a deal to return the prisoners, and that they are awaiting the decision of the political leadership in this regard.

According to the Israeli website “Walla”, Tel Aviv has handed the mediators a list of the names of the Israeli prisoners it wants to include and return within the framework of the first phase of the deal, and Hamas, according to the same website, has also handed over a list of the names of the prisoners it wants to include in this phase of the deal.

The website quoted Israeli and American sources as saying that “the main issue that the negotiating teams worked on was related to the mechanism for exchanging prisoners and the time frame for the operation, and that the American administration was interested in presenting a summary of the details of implementing the deal, in order to convince Yahya Sinwar (head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas) and Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister) to make concessions on the basic issues that are still controversial between the two parties.” The leaked reports on the negotiations did not provide new information regarding the Philadelphi Corridor, in light of Netanyahu’s insistence on keeping Israeli forces there, noting that it was the subject of intense disagreement in the last meeting of the security cabinet, where Netanyahu clashed with his Defense Minister Yoav Galant, who supports the position of the security and military leadership to withdraw completely from it during the implementation of the first phase of the deal.