THE head of the CIAof the US intelligence agency, will meet “within the next few days in Paris” with his counterparts and high-ranking officials from the Egypt, Israel and Qatarin an effort to reach an agreement between Israel and the Hamas on the issue of Gaza, a source close to the security services of one of the countries involved in the negotiations told AFP this evening.

This source confirmed her information American newspaper Washington Postaccording to which the US president Joe Biden intends “very soon” to send him to Europe William Burns to negotiate the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a two-month ceasefire.

According to the newspaper and news website Axios, Burns will hold talks with Israel’s Mossad chief David Barnea, his Egyptian intelligence counterpart Abbas Kamel and Qatar’s prime minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahman Al Thani. However, it had not been officially announced where this meeting would take place.