Of Athena Papakosta

Israeli officials remain moderately optimistic about the possibility of reaching a new truce agreement in the Gaza Strip, in view of the meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the President of the United States.

At the moment, it remains unknown if this new attempt to reach an agreement could also be resolved in the big thorn between Israel and Hamas, if a new ceasefire can actually mean the end of the war in the Gaza Strip.

According to the US president himself, Israel informed the United States on Tuesday that it agrees with the “necessary conditions” for a 60 -day ceasefire with Hamas.

In fact, as Trump also underlined in his post on his personal account on the Truth Social platform, during these two months by the United States will cooperate with all parties to end the war. According to New York Times, who cited three Israeli officials, during this ceasefire, mediators will guarantee that the talks will continue, in order to agree on the end of the war.

To date, Hamas insists that it will liberate hostages only when Israel stops the war, while the Israeli prime minister himself clarifies that he will end it only if Hamas is completely eliminated.

In fact Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday afternoon reiterated the Israeli government’s intention to eliminate Hamas, stressing in this respect that “There will be no Hamas. There will be no Hamastan. We will not go back to it. It’s over. “ At the same time, Israeli Foreign Minister made it clear that war could end “Even tomorrow”if Hamas “Release hostages and deposit the weapons.”

From the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, we already count Two ceasefire deals Between the two sides, however, before being impassed, they allowed the exchange of hostages with Palestinian prisoners.

The last time the two parties came to an agreement a few months ago with the truce collapsing in mid -March, while the Islamist Palestinian organization had released 30 hostages as well as eight of them with Israel leaving more than 1,500 Palestinians free.

At the moment the framework for the truce proposal and its details have not been disclosed, such as whether the Israeli armed forces will completely or partially leave the Palestinian enclave or how many Palestinian prisoners this time is projected to be released or even what is being released.

According to international media, the only thing that is certain is that Israel says yes to a temporary and not permanent ceasefire, and this is because of the pressure exerted on Netanyahu by his far -right government partners who want the war to continue and continue to continue.

At present the Benjamin Netanyahu He will meet with Donald Trump early next week, and this is the first quarter of the two leaders since the start and end of the 12-day war between Israel-Iran and their first meeting by the Trump announcement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.