For the hostage agreement with Israel, Hamas proposes a 135-day ceasefire plan in three phases (45 days each).
This was reported by Reuters, which has seen the draft of Hamas' response to the proposal sent last week by Qatar and Egypt.
But an Israeli source says that many of the demands in the counterproposal are unacceptable from every point of view.
The first phase of the plan indicated by Hamas provides for the release of women, the elderly, the sick and males under 19 in exchange for detained Palestinian women and minors;
the second phase the exchange of the other men with other detainees and the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from Gaza;
the third is the restitution of the bodies.
Hamas is also asking for aid and the start of reconstruction of the Strip.
In an addendum to the proposal, Reuters adds on its website, Hamas declares that it wants the release of 1,500 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, a third of whom are among those sentenced to life imprisonment.
Furthermore, by the end of the third phase, Hamas expects the parties to have reached an agreement on the end of the war.
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Source Israel: 'Hamas' demands are unacceptable'
Many of the demands in the Hamas counterproposal for an agreement are unacceptable to Israel in every way.
An Israeli source reiterated this to Canale 13, according to whom the question on the table is now whether to reject the requests completely or undertake negotiations in an attempt to soften them.
Blinken's meeting with the Israeli chief of staff is skipped
The private meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Chief of Staff, General Herzi Halevy, which appeared in the visit program released yesterday by the Americans, will not take place.
The reason, Israel ha-Yom claims, is due to the
opposition expressed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office
.
A political source, quoted by the newspaper, noted that in diplomatic relations it is not normal for a foreign minister to meet a military leader of the other country without the presence of a political leader.
“Israel is not a banana republic,” the source added.
Hamas' requests also include a ban on the entry of Jews to the Esplanade.
In the requests made by Hamas for the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza within the framework of the general agreement, there is also that of
preventing the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount
(the Temple Mount for Judaism).
This was reported by Kan TV according to which Hamas has also requested the construction of tens of thousands of prefabricated buildings in the Strip, the authorization for the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and the entry of 500 aid trucks per day as well as fuel and electric energy.
Lebanese media, 'Hamas wants 1,500 prisoners, plus all minors and elderly people'
In the proposed agreement, Hamas requests, in addition to the release of 1,500 Palestinian prisoners (of which 500 sentenced to life imprisonment), also the release of "all Palestinian prisoners in Israel who are younger than 19 years or older than 50 years, so like those who are sick."
This was reported by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar - considered close to Hezbollah and Hamas itself - reported by the Israeli media.
According to international media calculations, the total number would be between 3,000 and 5,000 prisoners.
Message to Qatar, 'Israel ready to attack Rafah if negotiations fail'
If the hostage negotiations fail, Israel "is ready to attack Hamas positions in Rafah", in the southern Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt.
The Israeli broadcaster Kan TV said this, according to which the message was forwarded from Israel to Qatar.
Netanyahu would have mandated a 7-day truce for each phase of the agreement
On the eve of the mediation at the end of January in Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a mandate to Mossad chief David Barnea to agree on a one-week transitional "ceasefire" during each of the three phases of the agreement proposed by Hamas.
The decision - according to Kan TV - was taken without consulting the War Cabinet and was discussed in Paris during the mediation of the USA, Egypt and Qatar with Israel.
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