Jerusalem:
Israel cancelled a deliberate journey of Mossad director David Barnea to Qatar to restart talks on a potential second hostage launch deal, CNN reported citing a supply.
Mossad director David Barnea is not going to journey to the Qatari capital Doha, the place earlier talks on the discharge of hostages held by Hamas operatives in Gaza have taken place, the supply mentioned.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel’s Channel 13 first reported that the Israeli conflict cupboard, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had known as off the journey and that senior Israeli officers wouldn’t go to Qatar to restart negotiations.
Round 240 individuals, from infants to octogenarians, have been taken hostage throughout Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7. Though dozens have been freed, many extra stay lacking, presumed to be held by the Palestinian operative group and different teams in Gaza, following the breakdown of a short lived truce final month.
In line with CNN, the Israeli prime minister’s workplace believes 135 hostages stay in Gaza, out of whom 115 are alive.
Additionally, formal negotiations haven’t resumed since hostage talks that had been going down in Doha broke down earlier this month.
However Israel, the US and Qatar have continued to debate methods to attempt to jump-start the discussions, CNN reported citing a number of sources.
Households of a number of the Israeli hostages have been outraged by the choice to cancel Barnea’s journey and demanded solutions. “We are fed up with the indifference and deadlock,” they mentioned in a press release.
“The families were shocked by the report on the rejection of the Director of Mossad’s request to formulate an agreement for the release of the hostages,” the assertion added. “This announcement comes in addition to the ignoring of the parents’ request to meet with the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister, which have not yet been answered”.
Notably, Barnea has been main the hostage negotiations for Israel whereas his American counterpart, CIA Director Invoice Burns, has achieved the identical for the US.
Eight Americans are believed to be among the many hostages and the US has performed a mediating position alongside Qatar, which has led engagement with Hamas.
Earlier on Wednesday, the households of the American hostages met with President Joe Biden in Washington. In line with a member of the family, additionally they went to the CIA to satisfy with Burns. A US official confirmed the CIA assembly.
On Wednesday, a supply accustomed to the negotiation efforts informed CNN that Hamas has been unresponsive to overtures made in latest days to attempt to restart the hostage talks.
Qatar has relayed to Hamas new concepts to attempt to get extra hostages out of Gaza, together with a possible deal that would come with the discharge of not simply the remaining ladies hostages, males as nicely, CNN reported citing one supply accustomed to the efforts and a senior US official.
“There’s not an active negotiation, but there’s a real exploration of ideas for how to get this going,” the senior US official mentioned.
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