Axios’ account of Netanyahu’s plea to America to agree with Hamas

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, an American media in a part of its report focused on the efforts of the US government to realize the prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to persuade the Americans to achieve this. The agreement has mentioned.

The Axios database, close to American and Israeli sources, in its report published on Thursday, stated that Netanyahu is the arm of an official of Joe Biden’s administration, who was tasked with pursuing the prisoner exchange case. and said, “We need this agreement.”

In this report, the American media claimed that the continuous pressure of “Joe Biden”, the president of the United States, on the heads of the Middle East countries is one of the key factors in This agreement was finalized between Israel and Hamas.

Majed Bin Mohammad Al-Ansari, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, announced this Thursday that the temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at seven o’clock tomorrow local time. Pointing out that the first group of prisoners will be exchanged at 16:00 of the same day, Al-Ansari expressed the hope that this ceasefire will become a permanent ceasefire. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s senior adviser on Middle East issues, and another of his senior advisers, Josh Glatzer, have been tasked with forming a secret task force to free the “hostages”.

As ​​reported by the American base, in one of McGurk’s meetings with Netanyahu, the two officials discussed after McGurk said that the White House’s opinion is that the governance of Gaza after the end of the war in Gaza will be given to the organization. It became controversial to hand over the Palestinian Authority.

According to Axios, Netanyahu told McGurk in that meeting that was held in Tel Aviv: “Our soldiers are not fighting in Gaza to leave a Fatahistan (in Gaza) that a little later once It will turn into Hamasistan.”

An American official said that as McGurk was leaving the meeting, Netanyahu grabbed his arm and said, “We need this agreement.” He then asked McGurk to call Biden once again with the Emir of Qatar so that he could complete the prisoner exchange agreement.

The Axios website did not mention the time of the meeting between Netanyahu and McGurk, but in the continuation of the text, when the negotiations between Washington, Tel Aviv and Doha continued, the ground attack in Gaza began.

These days, Netanyahu has been accused by the relatives of the prisoners of not doing enough to free these prisoners from Hamas and has been under severe pressure for this.

In a meeting yesterday with members of the war cabinet, he described the decision to exchange prisoners as a “tough decision” but said that at the same time, it was the right decision.

The Israeli regime has placed Gaza under a complete siege after the October 7 operation, which the Hamas group refers to as the “Al-Aqsa storm”, and has made this area the target of heavy bombings. The Zionist army has launched a ground attack on Gaza a few weeks ago.

Israel has announced its ultimate goal of this operation is the complete destruction of Hamas. Despite this, many analysts, even within occupied Palestine itself, doubt Tel Aviv’s ability to achieve this goal.

Some members of Netanyahu’s war cabinet met on Tuesday in Jerusalem with the relatives of prisoners who traveled a long way to show their protest against Netanyahu.

The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday that there were arguments between the families of the prisoners and some Israeli officials during this meeting.

According to this report, the families of the captives opposed the plan of some extreme right-wing politicians to issue the death sentence for some Palestinians and declared that the advancement of such a plan may be a life-threatening danger for their loved ones. to bring

This point of view was opposed by some Israeli officials who believed that increasing military pressure on Hamas could facilitate an agreement for the release of the prisoners, and at times led to verbal conflicts between the families of the prisoners and these authorities. Led.

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