According to Egyptian state-affiliated media, delegations from Israel and Hamas started indirect negotiations on resolving the nearly two-year conflict in Gaza on Monday in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh.
The delegations “are discussing preparing ground conditions for the release of detainees and prisoners,” according to state intelligence-affiliated Al Qahera News, in keeping with US President Donald Trump’s call to end the fighting.
They claimed that mediators from Egypt and Qatar are collaborating with both parties to set up a system for exchanging Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons for hostages held in Gaza. Negotiators will communicate through mediators who will be moving back and forth behind closed doors and under strict security.
An Egyptian security source said that prior to the negotiations, the Hamas group met with Egyptian intelligence personnel under the leadership of chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, who survived the Doha attack.
According to a Palestinian source close to Hamas’s leadership, the current round of negotiations “may last for several days” and was initiated on the day of the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas that precipitated the conflict.
Given the occupation’s plans to go on its extermination campaign, we anticipate that the negotiations will be challenging and intricate, he told AFP. Trump has pushed negotiations to “move fast” to end the war in Gaza, where Israeli bombings continued Monday. His son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff are scheduled to arrive in Egypt.
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