Egypt's president says it has proposed 2-day ceasefire in Gaza

Egypt's president connected Sunday said his state has projected a two-day cease-fire betwixt Israel and Hamas during which 4 hostages held successful Gaza would beryllium freed and immoderate Palestinian prisoners would beryllium released.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, speaking successful Cairo, said nan connection besides includes nan transportation of humanitarian assistance to nan besieged Gaza Strip. This is nan first clip Egypt's president has publically projected specified a plan.

Egypt, on pinch Qatar and nan United States, has been a cardinal mediator for bid talks betwixt Israel and Hamas since nan warfare collapsed retired more than a twelvemonth ago. Months of negotiations sputtered to a halt successful August.

El-Sissi said nan connection intends to "move nan business forward," adding that erstwhile nan two-day cease-fire goes into effect, negotiations would proceed to make it permanent.

There hasn't been a cease-fire successful 11 months, since November's weeklong region successful fighting successful which 105 hostages were released successful speech for 240 Palestinian prisoners.

Egypt's connection comes arsenic Israel's apical spy, Mossad main David Barnea, is walking to Doha connected Sunday for talks pinch CIA Director William Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

There person not been immoderate contiguous reactions from Israel aliases Hamas to Egypt's proposal.

During a authorities memorial Sunday for nan Hebrew day of nan Oct. 7 attack, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that "not each extremity tin beryllium achieved done subject operations." He added that "painful compromises will beryllium required" to return nan hostages.

Egypt's connection came a time aft Israeli strikes connected Iran successful consequence to Iran's ballistic rocket onslaught connected Israel earlier this month. Iran's ultimate leader said nan onslaught "should not beryllium exaggerated nor downplayed," while stopping short of calling for retaliation. It was Israel's first unfastened onslaught connected its archenemy.

That speech of occurrence has raised fears of an all-out location warfare pitting Israel and nan United States against Iran and its militant proxies, which see Hamas and nan Hezbollah militant group successful Lebanon, wherever Israel launched a crushed penetration earlier this period aft astir a twelvemonth of lower-level conflict sparked by nan warfare successful Gaza.

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