International newspapers highlighted the mediators’ efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza Strip It leads to a prisoner exchange, coinciding with the escalation of tension in the region following the assassinations of prominent figures in the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) andParty ofThis is Lebanese.
The British Financial Times said that Qatar, Egypt and the United States are making strenuous efforts to give urgency to the negotiations that failed to achieve a breakthrough and suffered a setback after the assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau. Ismail Haniyeh.
Although the mediators did not expect – according to the newspaper – that Hamas andIsrael Ready to sign an agreement when they meet in Cairo or Doha next Thursday, they hope to bridge gaps on four or five issues that separate the two sides’ positions.
In turn, the Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post, saw in an analysis that the deal to recover the prisoners held by Hamas could lead to calming regional tensions and stopping potential retaliatory attacks by Hezbollah and Iran.
She pointed out that the failure in the next stage to show flexibility on the part of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu It may risk aborting the deal and creating a deadlock in which the prisoner release window may not open for a period of time.
On the field level, the American newspaper, The New York Times, noted that hospitals in Israel are preparing to transfer patients to underground wards.
Israeli officials, according to the newspaper, expected that Hezbollah would attack first before Iran retaliated, noting that both sides could launch swarms of drones that fly at low altitudes, making them more difficult to track and destroy than missiles and shells.
For its part, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that Netanyahu has made the Israelis “a people without the ability to plan for the future,” adding that the policy of ambiguity and confusion is not just an expression of failed leadership that harms the entire population, but rather it is a tool of governance used by dictators.
The Washington Post indicated that Israel’s bombing of schools in Gaza has become a recurring incident in recent weeks, with 7 schools targeted in 8 days.
The newspaper quoted Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), as saying:UNRWAShe said that 70% of the agency’s schools have been bombed since the beginning of the war.
In another context, the American Wall Street Journal said that the death of Palestinians in Israeli prisons reinforces allegations of worsening violations against them, noting that 44 Palestinian detainees died in Israeli military prisons in the period from October 7, 2023 to July 2, 2024.
She pointed out that Israeli officials did not announce autopsies or causes of death in most cases.
