American Messenger to Qatar to join the negotiation negotiations ceasefire

The White House messenger, Steve Witcoof, is in Qatar to join the indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas to expand the delicate ceasefire in Gaza.

This week, participants of the talks on both sides began to meet with mediators for the first time after President Donald Trump took over on January 20. On the eve of his inauguration, the 42nd first stage of the gas agreement and the temporary truce joined.

As a result of the first stage, Hamas returned 25 living Israeli hostages and the remains of eight others – in exchange for about 1800 Palestinian prisoners who passed Israel – as well as five live hostages. It ended on March 1.

Israel now hopes that the US can promote a plan for a two -month truce expansion, which will start with the exit of about half the living hostages that are still over.

So far, Hamas rejected that, demanding immediate negotiations in the second stage in the original ceasefire agreement that would end the war and lead to the complete withdrawal of the Israeli unit.

However, it states that it is approaching the current debate in Doha with “full responsibility and positiveness”.

Since the beginning of this month, Israel has blocked all assistance supplies – including food and fuel – in gasSaying he is aimed at Hamas pressure.

Electricity was also cut out by the only factory for desktop on the territory that provides clean waterSo now it works on reduced power on the generators using fuel reserves.

In response, Huti movement in Yemen said on Tuesday that he would restart attacks on Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea and Aden, threatening to again throw a key sea route into chaos.

The alarm is increasing when the Israel’s potential impact, which blocks the goods in gas, while some of its allies warn that it may violate international law.

The UN Local Humanitarian Coordinator Muhanad Hadi said: “Any additional delays (upon their help) will further abolish any progress that we have been able to reach during the ceasefire.”

“We pray that these issues are urgently resolved,” said the BBC Baker Husam Rustom.

When he stopped flour and gas preparation, he said that his bakery – which provided more than 2,000 bread packages a day – were forced to close, like several others in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

“We are exhausted and tired of all this. It brought us crazy,” said Grandma Zeinaba Al-Bajuk. She added that food prices are rising rapidly.

Mariam Abu Muhaimer, a student, opposed the expansion of the existing truce. “There must be a decision that ends the war,” she said. “That’s enough!”

The United States has never confirmed this, but on March 2, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Vitkoff proposed a temporary expansion of the ceasefire before the Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan and the Jewish Easter holiday.

According to this plan, which Netanyahu said that Israel has taken, half hostages would be released together at the beginning and in the second half.

The Prime Minister suggested that Vitkoff “even determined his proposal as a corridor for negotiations in the second stage. Israel is ready for that.”

It is believed that Hamas still holds up to 24 live hostages in gas and 35 remains. American Israeli soldier, 21-year-old Edon Alexander, is one of those who are said to be alive. There are also four other American citizens.

Hamas accused Israel of restoring the original ceasefire.

Despite the pressure from the regional mediators – Qatar and Egypt – as in the US, it is unlikely that the armed group will abandon many hostages without complete stopping in gas. He sees them as a major conversation in the negotiations.

For relatives and supporters of the Israelis who are captured, these are desperate times.

On Saturday, some are located under the borders of the Ministry of Defense in Tel -Aviv to demand an immediate ceasefire agreement that would release everyone in captivity.

“How can I start processing our personal tragedy if national injury is not over?” Said offrei Bibas, Sister Yarden Bibas, at protests on Monday night.

Latest exchanges with Hamas led to your brother’s release and Return her daughter -in -law and two young nephews, Ariel and kfir who died in gas.

“I have 59 siblings in hell,” the offri continued, referring to the total number of remaining hostages. “We got Jerden alive, but the width and children could be saved. On the porch, everyone should be at home, and the only way to return everyone is to end the war. Now.”

A poll for TV of the 13th channel Israel shows that half of the Israelis believes that the US president is more concerned about the fate of hostages than Netanyahu.

Asked which of the two they considered more concerned, 50% of the respondents said that Trump, 29% Netanyahu, and the rest were not sure.

In extreme right-wing allies, the Prime Minister threatened to destroy his ruling coalition if the fights did not resume the gas to achieve their military goal.

So far, Israel, and Hamas, have largely refrained from returning to general hostilities in the Palestinian territory.

However, Israel recently carried daily blows. On Tuesday, four people were killed in Vadi Gaza, who also known as a corridor is the area from which the Israeli forces retreated as part of the gas ceasefire.

The Israeli military has stated that its air force had sent “several terrorists engaged in suspicious activity by threatening (Israeli) troops.”

Speaking to the BBC in Gaza, the father of one of the killed, Arafat Khan said his son Omar did nothing wrong.

He said he was with neighbors who went to the displaced people’s camp where they had previously remained to find things.

“They were innocent. They were just going to get mattresses and other things. They didn’t have rockets!” said Umm Tarek Obaid, who lived near people.

The new threats of the Hussites have the potential to stop the period of relative rest in the wide region, which began with the ceasefire of Gaza on January 19.

For 15 months since November 2023, they used rockets and drones to attack more than 100 trading ships, saying that they act in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Many vessels had no connection with Israel. Two flooded, one was confiscated and four sailors were killed.

Guta says they now want “to press on the Israeli essence of usurpat to re -open the crossing to the gas strip and allow help, including food and medical materials.”

However, there was no direct sign of ships.

The attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel, mostly civilians, with 251 hostage. Most women and children in captivity were released within a week’s truce in November 2023.

According to the Ministry of Health, Hamas, used by the UN and others, unprecedented, a deadly attack caused war on a gas that killed more than 48,500 people, most of them civilians.