According to a statement released by the Egyptian presidency on Monday, “El-Sisi and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar stressed the importance of efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.”
In light of Israel’s plans to seize Gaza City and force Palestinians to flee its principal urban center, the two leaders “reaffirmed their rejection of the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip and the displacement of Palestinians.” Additionally, they argued that “the path to peace” is the establishment of a Palestinian state.
A source informed Al Jazeera that mediators and a Hamas delegation are currently engaged in “intensive discussions” in Egypt. Netanyahu, the leader of Gaza, has been pressing for a ceasefire, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned down the request.
Since the start of the Gaza war, which has resulted in the deaths of 62, 000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, between Israel and Hamas, mediate has been conducted by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States.
The ongoing conflict, which has lasted more than 22 months and has caused a dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, has so far failed to achieve a lasting ceasefire.
Israel brokered a truce between Qatari, Egyptian, and US mediators in March that Israel broke. Since then, it has imposed a total blockade, leading to starvation and famine. The Israeli-induced starvation crisis has left over 260 Palestinians dead.
The most recent round of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, which were facilitated by mediators in Doha, lasted for several weeks before it ended on July 25 without any success.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty stated that Qatar’s prime minister was traveling on Monday to “consolidate our existing common efforts in order to put the pressure on the two sides to reach a deal as soon as possible.”
Abdelatty cited the dire humanitarian conditions that exist in the Gaza Strip, where UN agencies and aid organizations have issued warnings about a humanitarian crisis.
He claimed that “the state of the world today is beyond imagination.”
In preparation for an imminent Israeli offensive, thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee Gaza City.
Genocides don’t end with negotiated solutions, claim they do.
Abdullah Al-Arian, an associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, said it was important to remember that similar discussions have taken place before, but that “a lack of Israeli political will” is what ultimately has stalled them.
Israel has continued to pursue this genocide, he told Al Jazeera, adding that there hasn’t been any international pressure to secure a ceasefire.
Genocides don’t typically end with negotiated solutions; instead, they usually end with the perpetrator being forced to do so, typically through external pressure or some other form of intervention, which has not yet occurred,” the academic argued.
As the UN and international aid organizations continued to issue famine warnings in the Palestinian enclave, Amnesty International claimed on Monday that Israel had carried out a “deliberate policy” of starvation in Gaza.
Amnesty International stated in a report that quoted displaced Palestinians and medical personnel who had treated malnourished children that “Israel is engaged in a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
Source: Aljazeera
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