GAME CHANGING SOLEMNITY: US STUDENTS,GLOBAL VOICE& MUSLIM UMMAH WEIGHT SOFTENED ISRAEL STANCE. HAMAS(IA)WILL ACCEPT ISRAEL's NEW CEASEFIRE OFFER.

KEY POINTS

• Israel wants open-ended?freedom of action for its military ?in Gaza, while the Biden administration says it will not accept a return of Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip.
• The Biden administration seeks eventual?Palestinian governance in Gaza ?and the West Bank as a precursor to?Palestinian statehood . Netanyahu and his right-wing government reject a role for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and say they will never allow a Palestinian state.
• Last Sunday's phone call between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have focused on the negotiations.They also discussed the need to sustain a recent increase in aid reaching Gaza and continued US opposition to a full-scale offensive on the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million displaced people are sheltering. Local medics and rescuers said at least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on three homes in Rafah overnight.
• Thereafter a series of peace talks started b/w USA, Israel, Hamas, Palestine & neighboring State, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken having persuade Israel, heightened pressure on Hamas to accept the ceasefire, saying Israel had made “very important” compromises. “There’s no time for further haggling. The deal is there,” Blinken said Wednesday before leaving for the U.S.
• Earlier Mr Blinken also expressed optimism at a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh, which was attended by several of his European and Arab counterparts."Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous, on the part of Israel. And in this moment, the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas," he said."They have to decide, and they have to decide quickly... And I'm hopeful that they will make the right decision."
• Last weekend, there were further indications from senior Israeli generals that plans were being finalised for a major operation in Rafah, where the military says Hamas's remaining battalions and leaders are based. But Mr Blinken ?who flew from Saudi Arabia to Jordan and Israel - noted that the US had "not yet seen a plan that gives us confidence that civilians can be effectively protected".
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - a rival of Hamas who is based in the occupied West Bank - said on Sunday that the US was the only country capable of preventing an assault on Rafah, which he warned would cause "the biggest disaster in the history of the Palestinian people".
• The stakes were underscored in a new U.N. report Thursday that estimated damage caused by the war in Gaza at over $18.5 billion. It said it would take until 2040 to rebuild all of the homes destroyed in nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and ground offensives. Gaza was already grappling with a 45% unemployment rate before the war, according to the U.N. Development Program.
• Publicly at least, Israeli Prime Minister?Benjamin Netanyahu ?continues to insist that is the only acceptable endgame. He has vowed that even if a cease-fire is reached, Israel will eventually attack Rafah, which he says is Hamas’ last stronghold in Gaza. He repeated his determination to do so in talks Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was in Israel on a regional tour to push the deal through.
• The agreement’s immediate fate hinges on whether Hamas will accept uncertainty over the final phases to bring the initial six-week pause in fighting and at least postpone what it is feared would be a devastating assault on Rafah.
• Egypt has been privately assuring Hamas that the deal will mean a total end to the war. But the Egyptian official said Hamas says the text’s language is too vague and wants it to specify a complete Israeli pullout from all of Gaza. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the internal deliberations.
• The proposed draft agreement includes a 40-day truce in first phase (extendable to 40 years ) in return for the release of hostages and the prospect of displaced families being allowed back to northern Gaza.It reportedly also involves new wording on restoring calm meant to satisfy Hamas's demand for a permanent ceasefire.
• The Hamas delegation has now left Cairo and will return with a written response to the proposal, Egypt's state-affiliated Al Qahera TV said.
• The Israeli government is coming under growing pressure from its global allies and the families of the hostages to agree a deal.
• Israeli officials and a diplomat meanwhile told the New York Times and Financial Times on Monday that Israel was also prepared to reduce the number of hostages released during the first phase to 33, down from 40.
• Hamas has only said publicly that it is studying the new Israeli proposal, but an unnamed senior official told AFP news agency on Sunday that "the atmosphere is positive unless there are new Israeli obstacles".
• Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, whose country is a mediator in the Israel-Hamas negotiations along with Qatar, also said he was "hopeful".

1? .Worthy audience after months of stop-and-start negotiations, the cease-fire efforts appear to have?reached a critical stage , with Egyptian and American mediators reporting signs of compromise in recent days. But chances for the deal remain entangled with?the key question ?of whether Israel will accept an end to the war without reaching its stated goal of destroying Hamas. Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for?further cease-fire talks , in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the militant group to end?the war in Gaza . The stakes in the cease-fire negotiations were made clear in a new U.N. report that said if the Israel-Hamas war stops today, it will still take until 2040 to rebuild all the?homes that have been destroyed ?by nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and ground offensives in Gaza. It warned that the impact of the?damage to the economy ?will set back development for generations and will only get worse with every month fighting continues. The proposal that U.S. and Egyptian mediators have put to Hamas ?apparently with Israel’s acceptance ?sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages, but also negotiations over a “permanent calm” that includes some sort of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, according to an Egyptian official. Hamas is seeking guarantees for a full Israeli withdrawal and complete end to the war.

2?? .Hamas officials have sent mixed signals about the proposal in recent days. On ?Thursday, its supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said in a statement that he had spoken to Egypt’s intelligence chief and “stressed the positive spirit of the movement in studying the cease-fire proposal. “The statement said that Hamas negotiators would travel to Cairo “to complete the ongoing discussions with the aim of working forward for an agreement.” Haniyeh said he had also spoken to the prime minister of Qatar, another key mediator in the process. The brokers are hopeful that the deal will end a conflict that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, caused widespread destruction and plunged the territory into a humanitarian crisis. They also hope a deal will?avert an Israeli attack on Rafah , where more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have sought shelter after fleeing battle zones elsewhere in the territory. If Israel does agree to end the war in return for a full hostage release, it would be a major turnaround. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack stunned Israel, its leaders have vowed not to stop their bombardment and ground offensives until the militant group is destroyed. They also say Israel must keep a military presence in Gaza and security control after the war to ensure Hamas does not rebuild.

3??? .Worthy audience the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made tremendous effort to convince both sides to agree to a ceasefire truce for the last over six ?months. On the other side Qatar Egupt, Syria, Labenon ,Turkey, KSA, Pakistan Malaysia & other Muslim State & most of peace loving countries have table numerous draft resolutions in? UNGA/ UNSC asking Israel to stop genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile South Africa referred the case of Natanyahu in ICJ & other in ICC to issue warrant against BB Netanyahu & he be tried for Crimes against Humanity & several other war crimes. Amid all Israel attacked Iran consulate in Syria .This was a big blunder resultantly Iran very badly retaliated by attacking Israel with 330 Missiles drones & other projectiles. I the meantime all peace talks ended in deadlock, Qatar who was frontline mediator slightly backed away from the peace talks, here Egypt & USA intensified the mediation. Last week the plan offered by Egyptian mediators aims to discard / put off Israel’s Rafah offensive, which the U.S. said would have devastating consequences for over a million displaced Palestinians crowded against the border with Egypt.

• The Egyptians have also warned Israel against the operation, fearing a flood of Palestinian refugees driven into its territory.
• The initial stage of the deal would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
• After this first batch, Israeli troops would withdraw from a coastal road in Gaza and head inland to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid. This would also allow displaced civilians to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas would provide a list of hostages who are still alive during that time..
• Within the third week, both sides would start indirect negotiations that aim to restore permanent calm. Three weeks into the first phase, Israeli troops would withdraw from central Gaza.
• The second six-week phase would seek to finalize arrangements for a permanent calm, the release of all remaining hostages held by Hamas, both civilians and soldiers, in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners. The soldier hostages would not be released before the start of the calm.
• The third and final stage would include the release of the remains of deceased hostages still in Gaza, more prisoners held by Israel, and the start of a five-year reconstruction plan. The plan says that Hamas would agree not to rebuild its military arsenal.
• Both sides want to end the war on their own terms. Hamas leaders have for months refused anything short of a full Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and a permanent end to the fighting. Hamas negotiators will be seeking clarification on these issues when they return to Cairo.
• Israel wants to see all remaining hostages home safe, with Hamas and other militant groups crushed on the battlefield and expelled from power in Gaza — unable to launch another attack like the one on Oct. 7 that sparked the war.Israel says the Rafah invasion is critical for these goals. Netanyahu says Israel will invade the town with or without a hostage deal.
• Netanyahu also faces heavy domestic pressure. Thousands of people have joined weekly demonstrations calling on him to reach a hostage deal immediately. At the same time, hard-liners in his Cabinet have threatened to bring down the government if he ends the war.
• The Biden administration, which provides Israel crucial military and diplomatic support, says it opposes a Rafah invasion unless Israel provides a “credible” plan for protecting civilians there.
• It is not clear whether the cease-fire proposal addresses key questions about what happens in Gaza once the current round of fighting ends.The United States has called for a plan that includes a return of the internationally recognized?Palestinian Authority, ?which was ousted from Gaza by Hamas in 2007 and now administers parts of the occupied West Bank.?
• It also remains unclear who will run Gaza during the five-year reconstruction phase, what will happen to Hamas during that time and who will pay for the daunting job of rebuilding.

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