Israel, Hamas Agree to Hostage Deal Framework
Stand for Israel | July 11, 2024
There’s a potential plan in place for a hostages-for-ceasefire deal, and they are negotiating the details right now. In this new plan, there would be a Palestinian Authority force ruling Gaza, reports JNS:
The Post‘s David Ignatius said that though the framework is in place, officials warned that a final agreement is unlikely to be imminent as the details of the deal are complex and will take time to work through…
Ignatius said that, as part of the truce, the parties have indicated their approval of an interim governance plan in which neither Israel nor Hamas would rule Gaza. Instead, security would be provided by a U.S.-trained force backed by moderate Arab nations, drawn from a group of 2,500 vetted Palestinian Authority supporters who are already in Gaza.
Hamas told mediators that it was “prepared to relinquish authority to the interim governance arrangement” during the second phase of the agreement, which comes after the initial six-week truce, an official said.