18/7/2025–|Last update: 12:40 (Mecca time)
The Israeli media highlighted the ceasefire negotiations and the exchange of prisoners in the Qatari capital, amid talk about progress on the issue of Israeli withdrawal maps from inside Gaza Strip.
The channel “Kan 11”, according to officials familiar with the negotiations, said that the gaps are narrowing between the parties, but there are still issues that were not reached.
These issues include the issue of maps that Israel is supposed to hand over to Hamas and includes another withdrawal from Morag axis The separation between my city Khan Yunis AndRafahIn addition to the number of Palestinian prisoners who will be released during the partial deal, an issue that has not yet been discussed.
The 13th Israeli channel reported that the new maps were offered to Hamas through the mediators, and quoted a senior American official familiar with the details as saying that there is great and important flexibility by Israel.
According to this American official, this flexibility may bring Hamas close to saying “Yes” on this issue.
In the same context, Dana Weiss expressed the analyst of political affairs in Channel 12, its conviction that Israel I accepted with slight adjustments the Qatari proposal to return to the previous ceasefire lines, referring to it January Agreement the past.
According to Weiss, Israel has informed the mediators that it had abdicated its demand for the Morag axis, and it is also ready to express great flexibility about its presence in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip.
In turn, the Politico newspaper quoted the American hosts of “hostages” affairs Man His saying that reaching an agreement in Gaza is closer to ever, describing Hamas as “very stubborn” and is still steadfast.
The Hamas movement has announced its approval to release 10 Israeli prisoners and 18 dead, at a time when Israel estimates that 50 of its families in Gaza, including 20 neighborhoods, while its prisons lies more than 10 thousand and 800 Palestinians suffering torture, starvation and medical neglect, which killed many of them.
Over the course of 21 months of the war of extermination on Gaza, several rounds of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas have been brought in the end of the war and the exchange of prisoners, by its leaders, Egypt, Qatar and the United States.
During this period, two ceasefire agreements were reached, the first in November 2023, and the second in January 2025, where they witnessed partial agreements to exchange numbers of prisoners, before Israel dismissed the last agreement, and its war on Gaza was resumed on March 18.