Difficulties in negotiations: The Arab reports about the lack of progress in the ceasefire talks between Israel and the Islamic Jihad continue.
According to reports in the Arab media, Egypt demanded that the Islamic Jihad stop the shooting, but the organization refused. According to the reports, since a large part of the organization’s leadership was eliminated by the IDF, there are difficulties in making decisions in the organization. The Egyptians will continue today (Saturday) in their efforts to achieve a ceasefire.
In addition, the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network reported from its sources that the peace talks in Egypt have encountered many difficulties and there has been no real breakthrough so far. According to the report, the main obstacle is Israel’s refusal to make any commitment to stop the policy of assassinations. Jihad and the terrorist organizations have rejected the idea of a ceasefire without such a commitment. The sources also said that “the chance of a large-scale campaign is greater than the chance of peace”.
Yesterday, “Israel Hayom” published that those close to the Islamic Jihad organization in Gaza said that if there is no progress in the negotiations, the organization is ready to continue fighting until the expected date of the parade of flags in Jerusalem next week, a date that has become a focus of tension in recent years.
The same source also added that “Jihad wants a commitment from Israel to stop the assassinations, and is not willing to be satisfied with an Egyptian promise. It wants something concrete from the Israelis. It does not have to be in the form of a written document, verbal commitments can also satisfy it, the main thing is that they have binding force.” . The source added that this is a lesson the organization learned from the fighting in August 2022 (Operation “Dawn”), when at the end of the operation the Egyptians pledged that Israel would release the jihadist in the West Bank, Bassam Saadi, while Israel denied this commitment in the media afterwards.
Regarding the involvement of the Hamas organization in the talks and in the Strip, other sources in Gaza clarified that the organization that controls the Strip is not involved in the negotiations and is not able to impose its opinion on the Islamic Jihad organization.
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Following this, Jihad sources told the Lebanese newspaper “Al-Akhbar”, close to Hezbollah, that the terrorist organization insists on not repeating the scenario of the negotiations in Operation Dawn. They are interested in not fettering the “resistance in the Gaza Strip”, to continue with the “unity of the arenas” equation – and not to allow Israel to isolate Judea and Samaria after the current operation. The sources revealed that “Jihad” wants to reach an agreement with guarantees from the mediators on the conditions it set (among them the cessation of the killings and the return of the body of Hader Adnan, the Jihad detainee who died on hunger strike).
-According to the Lebanese report, Israel rejects any declared agreement under these conditions and insists on a mutual ceasefire only. It was also reported that the head of the political department in the Islamic Jihad left Cairo – where he held talks with Egyptian intelligence. Al-Hindi went to Lebanon with a proposal for the leadership of the Islamic Jihad there.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad, Ziad Nachala, spoke yesterday with Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Hussein Abdel Lahyan. While in Gaza, a sixth senior member of the military wing was being eliminated, Nachala assured the Iranians that “the situation of the resistance on the ground is excellent” and emphasized that the campaign will continue until the conditions of The jihad.
Shooting for Jerusalem
Yesterday, Israel Hayom reported from sources close to the Jihad organization that the shooting into Jerusalem was carried out out of a desire to put pressure on Israel as part of the ceasefire negotiations. Now the Lebanese newspaper close to Hezbollah reports that Palestinian sources said that the launches towards the Jerusalem area came after a “consultation” between the terrorist organizations in the joint coalition, which includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
According to the report, the terrorist organizations aim to turn the campaign from a reaction to the killing of senior jihadists into a “defense of Jerusalem”. Against this background, the sources said that the military is examining options for continuing the round of fighting until the parade of flags planned to take place next week. So, if the operation continues – the conflict will go in the direction of focusing on Jerusalem and a “second phase” will begin.
At the same time, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad, Dawood Shihab, said that the launches into the Jerusalem area were “a message that the eye of the resistance is open on Jerusalem and is watching everything that happens there and everything that the enemy is planning there. The campaign is approaching the time of the flag parade. This encourages us to continue. From our point of view, a pause The negotiations (for a ceasefire) or its continuation are the same thing. We have not been informed to stop and we are in an ongoing campaign and are ready for large and multiple options.”
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