The transaction in ceasefire Gaza gets into a critical moment

Where next? The first six -week gas ceasefire ends on Saturday.

At 42 days since January 19, they saw their share of uncertainty, hope, sadness and anger, but everything that was supposed to happen at this time.

Israeli hostages – alive and dead – were released. Palestinian prisoners were released.

But negotiations in the second stage, including the release of all other living hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, have hardly begun.

The talks opened on Cairo on Friday, but the Israeli delegation returned home in the evening.

The reports suggested that the negotiations would continue “at a distance”, and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to hold talks with the delegation, senior ministers and intelligence chiefs.

For such a meeting, which took place late on Saturday, it was very unusual. But as of mid -morning on Saturday, the details were not published.

It seems Israel seeks to extend the current phase for another six weeks to return more hostages and release more Palestinian prisoners, but without recalling their troops.

The government here is unwavering that Hamas, a group responsible for massacres on October 7, 2023, and 251 hostages, must lay their hands and abandon any form of power in the gas strip.

Israel also says that the Philadelphus is not ready to leave the Egypt -Gaza border – the process that was supposed to start on Saturday.

In a statement sent to journalists on Friday, an unnamed Israeli official said: “We will not allow Hamas killers to walk again with our picks and weapons, and we will not allow them to overcome smuggling.”

It is believed that such anonymous quotes come directly from the Prime Minister’s office.

Last summer, efforts to ensure the ceasefire in the gas stopped when Netanyahu insisted on keeping Israeli troops located along the Philadelphia corridor.

On Friday night, Hamas said he would disagree to expand the first stage without the guarantees of American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators, which will eventually take place.

Hamas seems to have decided to remain forcefully in Gaza, even if it can be prepared to pass on to the daily rule of other Palestinian subjects, including the Palestinian administration on the basis of the Western shore.

Egypt is working on the reconstruction plan for Gaza as an alternative to Donald Trump’s proposal to take the territory and evacuate all its civilians.

But Western diplomats are not optimistic that the plan, which should be presented at the Cairo League summit next Tuesday, has reliable arrangements for safety and management, which will be required to meet Israel’s requirements.

This is a critical moment.

With all the emotional upheaval over the past few weeks, the Israelis has been waiting for the gradual release of hostages. It is assumed that their 24 lives are still waiting for release, another 39 have died.

The Israelis desperately want them to return, without such propaganda displays that disgust and angry the whole country.

If the whole process stops now, public anger – in Hamas and its own government – will be established. Further street protests are planned, including one on Saturday night in Tel -Vavve, which all Israelis now know as hostages.

“We demand the return of all 59 other hostages to the 50th day of the agreement,” the invitation to the headquarters and the launchers and the disappeared families.

“Now our only opportunity – we will not get another.”

UN Secretary -General Antonio Gutteres weighed, calling the parties “not to spare effort to avoid breaking this transaction.”

There is a broad opinion that sooner or later the war will start again.

This is a gloomy perspective for hostages and two million Palestinians in Gaza, who are trying to bring their lives together in the current, gentle world.

In the place where families still dig the bodies of rubble, sometimes with their bare hands, the idea of ​​restoring the conflict, which already stated that tens of thousands of lives are cooled.

The districts in the midst of the gas lane, which still escaped the worst conflict, probably suffer from any return to the war, which is even more difficult to support life in this destroyed land.