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PALESTINE

Fri 07 Mar 2025 3:22 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas delegation in Cairo for talks on Gaza ceasefire

  1. A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo on Friday, on the eve of talks on a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip.


The Egyptian State Information Service announced that "a delegation from the leadership of the Hamas movement arrived in Cairo to discuss the procedures for implementing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and to push the negotiations to enter the second phase."


She added that the General Authority for Information said that "the Egyptian-Qatari efforts aim to provide the necessary guarantees to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza."


Two officials in the movement said on Friday that "a high-level leadership delegation in the Hamas movement, headed by Mohammed Darwish, the acting head of the movement, arrived in Cairo on Friday afternoon," according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse, quoting one of them.


The same source indicated that he will meet "on Saturday with officials in Egypt, to consult on developments in the situation, the progress made in implementing the ceasefire agreement, and what is related to starting the second phase."


On Sunday, the Israeli government decided to stop the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, hours after the end of the first phase of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Tel Aviv, and the latter’s obstruction of entering into negotiations for the second phase.


The war on Gaza left more than 160,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.


Washington said that the direct talks with Hamas were not for the purpose of negotiation but rather "to convey the American position in a different way."


This was stated by the spokeswoman for the US State Department, Tammy Bruce, in a press conference.


In response to a question about the meeting of the US Special Envoy for Prisoner Affairs, Adam Boehler, with Hamas leaders in Qatar, Bruce said on Thursday: “If I have a conversation with someone, this is not a negotiation, this is a transfer of the American position in a different way.”

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