“No more delays, no more excuses. Now is the time to act,” Blinken declared. The proposal for a truce in the war between Israel and Hamas was presented during a meeting in Cairo.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Tuesday to accept “Without further delay” the truce proposal with Israelassociated with the release of hostages detained in the Gaza Strip.
“No more delays, no more excuses. The time to act is now,” Blinken told reporters in Jordan shortly before leaving for Israel, as part of his seventh trip to the region since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, more ago. of six months.
The proposal for a truce in the war between Israel and Hamas was presented during a meeting held on Monday in Cairo with Egypt and Qatar, two of the mediating countries in the negotiations.
The Hamas delegation returned to Doha (in Qatar, where the political arm of the Islamist group is based) and is expected to respond “as quickly as possible,” a source close to the Palestinian Islamist movement told France Presse (AFP).
The proposal provides for a 40-day ceasefire and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media.
Source: Observadora
