Gaza correspondent
Palestinian officials have interacted between the Palestinian officials, familiar with the details of the discussion, a new Gaza ceasefire and the hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas in Qatar.
A senior official told the BBC that Israel had bought “time” during this week’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington and intentionally stopped the process by sending a delegation to Doha with no real rights to decide on the major points of the dispute.
These include the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers and human assistance distribution.
Before he exited the US on Thursday, Netanyahu maintained a positive tone, saying that he expects to fulfill “a compromise in a few days”.
He said that Hamas will be seen half of the 20 living hostages in the proposed deal, it is still holding and more than half of the 30 dead hostages during the 60 -day truste.
Since last Sunday, dialogues of Israeli and Hamas have participated in eight rounds of indirect “proximity” in separate buildings in Doha.
He has been ease by Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani and senior Egyptian intelligence officials, and by American messenger Brett McGark.
The intermediaries have relate dozens of oral and written messages between the Hamas delegation and the Israeli delegation, including military, security, and political officials.
But on Friday night, Palestinian officials told the BBC to get acquainted with negotiations that they were on the verge of collapse, both sides divided deeply on several controversial issues.
He said that the most recent discussions focused on two of those issues: the mechanism for providing humanitarian aid in Gaza and the limit of Israel’s military withdrawal.
Hamas has insisted that humanitarian aid should enter Gaza and be distributed through United Nations Agencies and International Relief Organizations.
On the other hand, Israel, Gaza is emphasizing for help distribution through the controversial Israel- and US-supported mechanism operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
According to the arbitrations involved in this process, there has been some limited progress on reducing the division on the issue. However, no formal agreement has been reached.
The second major sticking point is higher than the return limit of Israel.
During the fifth round of talks, Israeli negotiaters allegedly gave a written message to the mediators stating that Israel would maintain a limited “buffer zone” inside Gaza that was between 1 km and 1.5 km (0.6–0.9 mile).
Hamas, according to a Palestinian official, who attended at least two rounds of talks, saw the proposal as a possible initial point for the agreement.
However, when Hamas requested and received a map underlining Israel’s proposed withdrawal areas, the document denied the earlier message, showing very deep military positions. The map was asked to indicate the buffer zone which were deep up to 3 km deep in some areas and confirmed a constant Israeli appearance in the huge health of the region.
He covered 85% of the southern city of Khiza village Rafah in the east of Khan Younis, which were sufficient parts of Beite Lahia and Beat Hanoun’s northern cities and the eastern neighborhoods of Gaza city, such as Tafa, Shejaiya and Zitoon.
Hamas officials saw the map as a bad-bad maneuver by Israel, which was more confidence between the sides.
Palestinian officials accused the Israeli delegation of deliberately setting up a positive diplomatic background for the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to Washington.
Palestinian negotiator told the BBC, “They were never serious about these talks.” “He used these tours to buy time and project a false image of progress.”
The official also claimed that Israel was pursuing a long -term strategy of forcibly displacement under the guise of the human plan.
He alleged that Israeli’s Defense Minister Israel Katj’s plan to transfer Palestinians to “Humanitarian City” in Rafa was part of a comprehensive effort to permanently move them.
The official said, “The goal of focusing citizens near the Egyptian border is to pave the way for their expulsion to either either Egypt or through the sea,” the official said.
On Monday, Katz informed the Israeli reporters that they had directed the army to prepare a plan for a new camp in Rafa, initially around 600,000 Palestinians – and eventually at home for the entire 2.1 million population.
As per the plan, Palestinians will be allowed to protect by Israeli forces, which will not be allowed to leave and leave.
At the domestic and international level, both critics have condemned the proposal with human rights groups, academics and lawyers, it is called a blueprint for the “concentration camp”.
With negotiations at a significant turn, the Palestinian side is calling the US to intervene more forcefully and pressurize Israel to give meaningful concessions.
Without such intervention, the mediators warned, the Doha negotiations may collapse completely.
This is a landscape that will further complicate regional efforts to reach a sustainable ceasefire and avoid a broad human destruction in Gaza.
Diplomats in Doha say that there is still a narrow window to compromise, but this situation is critical.
“This process is hanging from a thread,” a regional official said. “Until something dramatically and quickly changes, we can move towards a breakdown.”
The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza on 7 October 2023 in response to the Hamas -led attack on Southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.
According to the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry of the region, at least 57,823 people have been killed in Gaza since then.