Uncertainty over truce and release of hostages in Gaza: the slippage
The agreement with Hamas, it is reiterated, "will be implemented"Both the truce and the release of the hostages in Gaza, both scheduled for today, have been postponed. From what emerges in these hours, they will not happen before tomorrow: Hamas has not yet ratified the agreement reached with Israel. The exchange involved 50 Israeli hostages with 150 Palestinian detainees.
"The delay – said an Israeli source – does not derive from a breakdown in talks, but rather from the need to resolve administrative issues, which are in the process of being resolved." "There is no reason - he added - to worry."
Minister Israel Katz - a senior member of Likud, the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - also declared on Military Radio that "at the moment the hypothesis is that the agreement will be implemented". "It must be remembered - he added - who we are working with: Sinwar (the head of Hamas, ed.) is a crazy man who gave orders to kill, rape and abuse."
(Unioneonline/ss)