The American correspondent Axius reported that negotiations on the second stage of the prisoner agreement should appeal on Monday, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to send the negotiation team to Qatar before his meeting with the president American Donald Trump next Tuesday, in the middle of the negotiations of the negotiation.
Axius cited a senior official that Netanyahu decided to cancel a meeting with the negotiation team and that he would prefer to postpone everything until his meeting in Trump next Tuesday.
A statement from the Netanyahu office explained that the Prime Minister spoke with President Trump’s envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkeov and agreed with him that negotiations on the second stage in the prisoner agreement would begin after their Meeting in Washington on Monday, where they will discuss Israelis positions.
Netanyahu’s office added that Witkeov will speak this week with the Prime Minister of the Qatari Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani and senior officials in Egypt, then discusses with Netanyahu on the necessary measures to submit negotiations , including staging dates to send delegations to keep talks.
On Saturday, the White House confirmed that President Trump and his administration are committed to freeing all the remaining detainees in the Gaza Strip, after finishing the release of the fourth prisoners in the first stage of the ceasefire The Feu, including the Israelis Israeli prisoner Keith Shmonsil Seagal.
A sign of brokers and enthusiasm
On the other hand, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported that Netanyahu was planning to change the management of the second -stage negotiations of the agreement and the Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer put the head of the negotiation team.
The newspaper said that the head of Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad), David Bernie, will remain a member of the team, as well as the head of the Bar of the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) Ronin and Major-General Nitzan Alon.
She said that Bernie will direct the security aspects in negotiations, while Dermer will resume the political and diplomatic side.
She also indicated that the appointment of dermer at the head of the negotiation team has not yet been resolved, but the current trend is that he is a minister to assume responsibility and possess a broader political vision and very Close to Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s office denied reports reported by the newspaper on the changes expected in the negotiation team and considered it “incorrect”, noting that all decisions in this regard will be made after Netanyahu’s visit to Washington.
For its part, Channel 12 cited sources that the appointment of dermer is an Israeli reference to the mediators and in Hamas that negotiations pass from a security issue to politics.
Sources have warned that this appointment would have complex repercussions and could hinder the agreement and could lead to the failure of the first step.
But the same sources have confirmed to Channel 12 that Netanyahu realizes that the negotiation chiefs will not abandon their second phase and that Dermer will keep the options open.
Spoil
On the other hand, the families of Israeli prisoners in Gaza warned President Trump that Netanyahu “will try to dodge as he did with (former president) Joe Biden” concerning the agreement, asking him ” Do not allow it to do it.
She added – in a television statement – that “many prisoners have been abandoned for political reasons, and without President Trump, they would not have been with us today”, committing to continue the “struggle” Before the rest of the prisoners return.
She stressed that there is a “media campaign in Israel to justify the resumption of war and blame for the” Hamas Islamic resistance movement “.
We have also accused Netanyahu and those who described them as extremist ministers from his government of trying to spoil the exchange agreement.
“We are faced with a brutal government that has tried to abandon the prisoners and plant the division between us,” she added.
Netanyahu confirmed on Saturday that he should release the kidnappers in the next prizes “safely”, noting that “he will continue to work with determination to release all the kidnappers and achieve the objectives of the war”.
It should be noted that the brigades of Al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, today delivered 3 Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, while Israel published 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange within the of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The “Shadow Unit” in Al -Qassam, captive Keith Siggal -which holds a dual -Israeli nationality -was given to the International Red Cross in the port of Gaza City, after the two Yarden Pepas and Ofer Caldron captives in Khan Yunis.
With the end of the fourth exchange in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement since January 19, the Resistance launched 13 Israelis and 5 Thai, against 583 Palestinian prisoners released from the prisons of the occupation.