Al Jazeera: It is possible to extend the ceasefire in Gaza

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, the website of Al Jazeera News Network reported that the extension of the ceasefire in Gaza for another day is possible, although none of the parties have yet confirmed it.

Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said at his evening press conference that if the agreements go ahead as planned, they expect more prisoners to be released on Friday, which would mean a pause in the fighting for another day.

However, according to Al Jazeera, in previous cases of ceasefire extension that happened in the past days, the Israelis usually did not issue an official statement and the extension of these agreements through the Qataris and or other parties have been announced.

Despite this, the Israeli military issued a statement early Thursday morning, 40 minutes before the ceasefire agreement was due to expire, saying that the ceasefire would be extended for another day.

Hours earlier, the Egyptian government information service announced that Egyptian and Qatari negotiators are trying to extend the ceasefire in Gaza for two more days.

Rashvan said that in the previous agreement, it was decided that 10 Israeli prisoners and 30 Palestinian prisoners would be released and humanitarian aid would enter the northern and southern Gaza region according to previous agreements. This Egyptian official stated that Cairo will carefully monitor the implementation of the ceasefire agreement.

Before the establishment of the first temporary ceasefire on November 24 (3rd of December), Israel’s 7-week attacks in Gaza killed more than Of the 15,000 people, more than 5,500 of them were children.

Despite the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli regime has continued its deadly raids in the West Bank, killing almost as many prisoners as As part of the ceasefire, he has released and arrested new Palestinian prisoners.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Israeli regime, also emphasized that the current ceasefires do not mean Tel Aviv’s intention to end the war. The Israeli regime has set its war goal of operations in Gaza as the “destruction of Hamas”, which many analysts even within occupied Palestine doubt its realization.

Many Western and European personalities in In the past days, they have stated that Hamas is an ideology and it is not possible to destroy it. For example, Josep Burrell, the European Union’s foreign policy official, said at a meeting in Barcelona a few days ago that Hamas is an ideology and it cannot be destroyed.

Islamic Resistance Movement In response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of siege of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians, Hamas launched the operation known as “Al-Aqsa Storm” on October 7th.

This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories at several points of the border fences, attacked the villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them.

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