Senior Israeli officials: Negotiations for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for a few hours

The talks began yesterday with the mediation of Egyptian intelligence and UN representatives. An agreement on a humanitarian ceasefire was almost reached at night but failed. The fear in Israel is that a deterioration in the humanitarian situation will pressure Hamas to join the fighting

Barak Ravid

07/08/2022

Sunday, 07 August 2022, 11:56 Updated: 12:18

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On video: the damage to the building where the senior jihadist Khaled Mansour was killed in Rafah (Photo: Reuters)

Senior Israeli officials said to Voila!

today (Sunday) that negotiations are taking place for a humanitarian ceasefire of a few hours later today in order to bring in diesel fuel to the power plant in Gaza.

The mediators in the talks are the Egyptian intelligence officers and the UN representatives.

Ruins in Gaza after the IDF shelling, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

why is it important:

• The power plant in Gaza is almost completely paralyzed and the electricity supply in Gaza has dropped from 12 hours to only four hours a day.

  The fear in Israel is that a deterioration in the humanitarian situation will pressure Hamas to join the fighting.

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Behind the Scenes:

• Western diplomats said that the original plan was for the humanitarian ceasefire to begin at seven or eight in the morning.

• According to them, the talks on the subject took place until three o'clock in the morning but then failed due to an assessment in Israel that the Islamic Jihad is not serious in its intentions and plans to escalate the fighting in the morning hours.

reminder:

• The head of the Shin Bet Ronan Bar said at last night's meeting of the political-security cabinet that efforts should be made to end the operation in Gaza before any malfunctions or mistakes occur that would entangle Israel in a wider operation that it does not want, according to two ministers who participated in the meeting.

• He also noted that the operation achieved more goals than we had set and will have an impact in other arenas as well, including a planned strategic goal of separating Hamas from Islamic Jihad.

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