Washington – Trump administration involves direct talks in Hamas due to release US hostages held in Gaza Strip, The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Wednesday.
President Donald Trump believes that the dialogue is about A “good effort to believe to do what is right for Americans,” Leavitt said in a White House News Brieting.
“There are American lives in danger,” he added, saying that Israel was consulted.
Progress comes after six weeks stopped Among Israel and Hamas ended on Saturday with no further negotiations in the peace of sight. This marked the first time the US made direct group talks, which it taught a terrorist organization.
Axio First reports talks between US and Hamas.
Asked when the Talks range includes Trump’s suggestion to take Gaza, Leavitt said he won’t expect details of the State Department’s warning.
Initially, the idea for a second round of a stopping that includes the release of many Hamas hostages in return to Israel from the Terrorality of Israel.
But in any talks continuing, Israel has returned to a halt on the flow of humanitarian aid In Gaza after the initial set of ceasefire is completed. Hamas immediately accuses Israel to break their agreement by “avoiding commitment to end the war and withdraw completely from Gaza.”
Last week, Israel approved a plan from Special Envoy in the Middle East, Steve WitkoffThat will continue at the first stage of the ceasefire by Ramadan and Passover instead of continuing to the second round of peace talks.
Witkoff’s plan calls for release of half of remaining hostagesAmong the bodies of the dead, the first day, and the remaining hostages once a permanent ceasefire deal reached by Netanyahu’s office.
But Hamas rejects the suggestion, saying that it is not honored by the original, multi-stopped agreement.
“Unfortunately, these positions by the United States strengthened the position of the zionist right within the government and pushed for taking punitive steps, including closing the crossings in this manner and using the starvation policy,” The group’s spokesman, hazem qassem said in a statement on Sunday.
The National Security Council Brian Hughes spokesman said to a Sunday statement that Israel was “negotiating with good faith since the hostages captured by terrorists in Hamas.”
Hughes added that the US supports Israel’s decision to the next steps “given Hamas no longer interested in a ceasefire.”
On Monday, Netanyahu Warned Hamas in remarks before the knesset, Israel’s legislature, that if the group didn’t release more hostages, “There will be consequences beyond your imagination. We are preparing the next stages of the campaign – not everything is visible, and that’s a good thing.”
Initial cease-stops announced by the Biden administration in January only days before Trump’s inauguration. It requires a stop of Israel’s military operations in Gaza and releasing living and dead hostages held in the prisoners of Palestine held in Israel.
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