Benjamin Netanyahu is owed to conscionable US President Donald Trump connected Tuesday successful Washington DC. (AP Photo)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is owed to conscionable US President Donald Trump connected Tuesday successful Washington DC, has reportedly skipped talks for a deadline to widen the Gaza ceasefire with the Hamas militant group.
The ceasefire statement betwixt Israel and Hamas came into unit connected January 19 and is owed to expire connected March 1.
According to the presumption of the ceasefire deal, talks connected the adjacent signifier to widen the ceasefire were owed to statesman connected February 3 but there’s been a soundlessness from Netanyahu’s bureau astir erstwhile a negotiating squad mightiness prosecute with Hamas.
However, Hamas has besides not commented publically astir the Monday’s deadline of ceasefire talks hold and sizeable uncertainty astir the adjacent signifier of the truce remains.
The Israeli authorities is yet to uncover the squad which volition beryllium negotiating with the Hamas radical that had signalled earlier that it volition beryllium sending its delegation to Qatar oregon Egypt for negotiations.
Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who has acted arsenic an intermediary successful the talks, said successful a property league connected Sunday that determination was nary clarity arsenic to erstwhile oregon however the talks would start. “We anticipation to spot immoderate question successful the coming days,” helium added.
US President Trump has claimed the recognition for the six-week ceasefire signed betwixt Israel and Hamas to intermission the hostilities which began successful October 2023 aft Hamas launched an onslaught connected Israel, sidesplitting implicit 1,200 radical and taking astir 250 radical hostage. In retaliatory measures, Israel had reportedly killed implicit 47,000 Palestinians.
(with inputs from CNN)
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