🔗 Share this article Palestinian Hamas and Israeli officials begin third-party discussions in Egypt on the US Palestinian ceasefire initiative. News Agency Israel has been carrying out an offensive in Palestinian territories for weeks. Mediated discussions aimed at reaching a final agreement on a Trump administration initiative to stop the conflict in Gaza have commenced in the Red Sea resort of the negotiation site. Local and international officials have reported that the meetings are focused on "creating the field conditions" for a potential swap that would see the freeing of all captured Israelis in compensation of a quantity of Palestinian prisoners. Hamas has said it agrees to the negotiation framework partially, but has not responded to several essential conditions - including its weapons surrender and future role in Gaza. The government official said on the weekend that he anticipated declaring the liberation of detained individuals "in the coming days" Background Context The negotiations, which will feature Egyptian and Qatari officials holding shuttle meetings with teams from both Israel and Hamas separately, come on the approach of the 24-month point of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7th, in which nearly 1,200 people were lost their lives and 251 others were seized. The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in countermeasure. Since then, over 67,000 have been lost their lives by armed interventions in Gaza, based on data from the region's Hamas-run health ministry. Peace Plan Details The comprehensive proposal, which has been approved by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposes an quick halt to hostilities and the release of 48 hostages, only 20 individuals are believed to be living, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The framework requires that once the two parties agree to the plan "full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip" It also specifies that Hamas would have no participation in governing Gaza, and it allows for an future Palestinian sovereignty. Recent Developments In the latest development, the group answered to the plan in a declaration, in which the group consented "to release all Israeli prisoners, both alive and killed, according to the swap arrangement outlined in President Trump's proposal" - if the necessary circumstances for the transfers are fulfilled. It omitted reference to or approve the detailed initiative but said it "reaffirms its commitment to transfer the management of the conflict zone to a local administration of technocrats, established through regional unity and international backing" The announcement made no mention of one of the crucial requirements of the proposal – that Hamas consent to its weapons surrender and to playing no further role in the governance of Gaza. International Response Local residents characterized the organization's answer to the ceasefire proposal as unexpected, after multiple days of indications that the faction was preparing to reject or at least substantially modify its acceptance of Trump's peace plan proposal. Conversely, Hamas excluded its customary boundaries in the public announcement, a action many interpret as a indication of outside forces. European and Middle Eastern officials have supported the plan. The Palestinian Authority, which controls areas of the Palestinian territories, has called the Trump administration actions as "sincere and determined" The Islamic Republic - which has been one of Hamas's main sponsors for an extended period - has also recently indicated its support for the US proposal. Ongoing Reality Military strikes continued in multiple areas of the Gaza Strip on recently prior to the talks beginning. Israel is implementing an combat campaign in the city, which it has declared is aimed at achieving the liberation of the still-detained individuals. A spokesperson, spokesman for the territory's civil protection agency, indicated that "no aid trucks have been allowed into Gaza City since the military operations started one month prior" "Victims remain we are unable to recover from locations under Israeli control" he said. Numerous individuals of the urban center have been compelled to evacuate after the Israeli military ordered evacuations to a established protection region in the south, but hundreds of thousands more are believed to have remained. Israel's defence minister has cautioned that those who persist during the offensive would be "terrorists and supporters of terror" In the previous day, 21 individuals have been fatally injured in Gaza and a further 96 injured, the Hamas-run health ministry said in its most recent report. Global media representatives have been banned by the government from accessing the conflict zone independently since the commencement of the war, making authenticating statements from the conflicting groups problematic.