Israel approves the temporary extension of Alto El Fuego de Gaza

The Israeli government has approved a temporary extension of the Alto El Fuego de Gaza during the next six weeks, covering the Muslim periods of Ramadan and Jewish Easter.

The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement shortly after the first phase of the high the previously agreed fire expired at midnight on Saturday.

The Netanyahu office said that under a high -fire proposal of the sentiment of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, half of the hostages that still have Hamas in Gaza, both alive and dead, would be released the first day.

The remaining hostages would be released “if an agreement is reached on a high permanent fire.”

Hamas has not publicly commented on the last Israeli movement.

The Israeli government supported the extension of Alto El Fuego after a four -hour meeting convened by Netanyahu.

The prime minister’s office said that Hamas “has so far refused” to support the Witkoff plan, adding that Israel would begin immediately negotiations if the group changed its position.

The American envoy plan provides that Israel could fight again after 42 days if he believed that negotiations in a second phase had failed.

On Friday night, Hamas said he would not agree with any extension of phase one without guarantees of US, Qatar and Egyptian mediators that phase two will eventually take place.

Hamas seems determined to remain a force in Gaza, even if he could be willing to deliver the daily government to other Palestinian actors, Including the Palestinian authority in the West Bank occupied by Israel, reports Paul Adams of the BBC from Jerusalem.

The first phase of the high fire that entered into force on January 19 expired on Saturday.

He stopped 15 months of struggle between Hamas and the Israeli army, which allowed the release of 33 Israeli hostages and five Thai for about 1,900 prisoners and Palestinian detainees.

But negotiations on phase two, including the release of all the remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of the Israeli troops of Gaza, have barely begun.

It is believed that there are 24 live hostages, with another 39 allegedly dead.

Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking another 251 hostages.

Israel responded with an air and land campaign in the Gaza Strip, during which at least 48,365 people have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health led by Hamas from the territory.