Israeli troops evacuated on Sunday’s main corridor, dividing the Gaza Strip, with nearly all the northern part of the territory reaching a lasting agreement ahead of any negotiations as required by a fragile ceasefire with Hamas.
When the Israeli government sent a delegation to Qatar over the weekend to discuss the next Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, the next phase was released during the initial phase of the ceasefire agreement, the military left the Netzarim corridor in Gaza, and the Israeli government sent the delegation to Qatar, discussing the next group of Israelis and Palestinian prisoners. One month, in progress. The dance performance of three Israeli hostages released on Saturday, which had a public comparison with the victims of the Holocaust, put new pressure on the negotiations.
The Israeli military said in a statement on Sunday that the troops were “implementing agreements” to leave the corridor and allow thousands of Palestinians to continue returning to northern Northern Gaza.
Two Israeli military officials and a soldier in Gaza have no right to discuss the situation publicly, or that the troops had left the Netzarim corridor before Sunday morning.
Hamas also said that Israeli troops had left the Nezarim corridor and said in a statement that it was a “victory of the will of our people.”
The evacuation from the corridor on Sunday means that the presence of Israeli forces in Gaza is now limited to a small piece of land near the Egyptian border, and buffer zones along the Israeli border.
Gaza’s interior ministry headed north toward Palestinians on Sunday, whose vehicles could still be inspected by foreign security contractors to prevent weapons from being transferred from the south.
“We call on citizens to be cautious and insist on relocations under the security mechanism currently allowed,” the Home Office said in a statement on Sunday.
The Israeli military ordered a mass evacuation of northern Gaza early in the war and patrolled the corridors in part to prevent Palestinians from returning. Last month, Israeli forces had been partially withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor, allowing foreign contractors to fill the gap.
During the first 42-day phase of the ceasefire agreement, they completely exited the corridor (now at the middle of the way), which was a necessary condition for promotion to the next phase to completely end the war in Gaza.
However, in the past week, there have been major new pitfalls in the past week to reach the next phase of the deal – possibly involving Israel’s military evacuation – in the past week, President Trump said the United States could take over Gaza and transform it into the relocation of Palestinian residents, “Rivera of the Middle East”.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry rejected the proposal again, repeating that a lasting peace agreement cannot be reached without a sovereign Palestinian state, a diplomatic goal passed down from generation to generation, but now officials and experts may now This goal cannot be achieved.
The thin appearance of the three Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Saturday also attracted widespread attention from Israel, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions were not enough to ensure their or others’ release – Increase The pressure on the Israeli government was brought to the rest of the pressure to captives return home and advance to the second phase of the deal.
But despite the weekend meeting in Qatar, there was little progress before Mr. Netanyahu convened his top security officials meeting in the coming days.
Netanyahu said in an interview Saturday that met the Trump administration in Washington, he was blamed on Hamas, not his hostage conditions. He predicts that at least more hostages will be released by next weekend.
“We have three war goals in Gaza,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News. “First, destroying Hamas’ military and management capabilities. Two, take all the hostages out. Third, Make sure Gaza never poses a threat to Israel again. I am committed to achieving these three.”
Even as Israeli troops left the main corridors of Gaza, they continued to raid and patrol the occupied West Bank. Palestinian health officials there said at least two people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were killed in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Turkam. The Israeli military did not comment on any casualties.
hiba yazbek and Gabby Sobelman Contribution report.
