On Sunday, the Israel Army withdrew from a major corridor that divides the Gaza tape, leaving almost all the region in the north, as required by the ceasefire with Hamas before any negotiations of a long -term agreement.
The departure of the army from the Netzarim corridor in Gaza came when the Israeli government sent a delegation to Qatar during the weekend to discuss the next group of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners who were released during the initial stage of the firefighting agreement, which recently entered into force, a month and a continuous.
The fake manifestations of three Israeli hostages who were released on Saturday, which led to general comparisons of the Holocaust victims, have put on new pressure on negotiations.
In a statement on Sunday, the Israeli army said that the forces “implement the agreement” to leave the corridor and allow hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to continue to return to northern Gaza.
Two Israeli military officials and a soldier in Gaza, who were not allowed to discuss the situation publicly or by name, said that the forces had already left the Netzarim corridor by Sunday morning.
Hamas also said that the Israeli forces left the area, saying in a statement that it was “a victory for the will of our people.”
The withdrawal of Sunday from the corridor means that the presence of the Israeli forces in Gaza is now limited to a small piece of land in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border, and a buffer zone along the Israeli border.
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior alerted the Palestinians to the north on Sunday that their cars could still be searched by foreign security contractors there to prevent the transfer of weapons from the south.
“We call on citizens to be careful and commit to moving according to the mechanism currently allowed for their safety,” the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday in a statement.
The Israeli army had ordered the mass evacuation in northern Gaza in the early days of the war and carried out in the corridor, partly to prevent the Palestinians from returning. The Israeli forces have already withdrawn partially from the Netzarim corridor last month, leaving foreign contractors to fill the void.
Their full withdrawal from the corridor is required in the framework of the first stage of 42 days of the ceasefire deal-which is now in the middle of the road-and it is necessary to advance its next stage to end the war in Gaza completely.
The new new fools to reach an agreement for the next stage – which can involve the full Israeli military withdrawal from all over Gaza – over the past week, after President Trump said that the United States could take over Gaza and turn it into “Rivera Middle East” by transferring Its Palestinian residents.
On Sunday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the proposal once again, while repeating that it is not possible to reach a permanent peace agreement without creating a sovereign Palestinian state – a diplomatic goal for generations, but a goal that officials and experts now say is impossible to achieve.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Egypt said on Sunday that it will host an Arab summit in emergency situations at the end of this month in Cairo “to address new and serious developments in the Palestinian issue,” noting that the meeting was coordinated with high -ranking officials in the Arab countries and was scheduled at the request Palestinian officials.
The comic appearance of three Israeli hostages that were released by Hamas on Saturday also sparked widespread concern in Israel that its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did not act quickly enough to ensure their release or others – increased pressure on the Israeli government to the Israeli government to bring the rest of the prisoners home And progress to the second stage of the deal.
On Sunday, the Alon Olin family, one of the hostages who are still detained, said in a statement issued by a group representing the relatives of the prisoners that for the first time in more than 490 days since it was seized, they received a speech that he is alive and that he is being held in tunnels in Gaza With some people who were recently released. The statement demanded that the Israeli leaders “take the humanitarian steps necessary to save the colors and other victims from hell suffering from.”
“The time is running out,” the statement added. “The second stage of the deal must be presented to return all the hostages.”
But despite the presence of negotiating and mediators this week in Qatar, no progress was expected in talks on the next stage of the armistice, until Mr. Netanyahu held a meeting of senior security officials in the coming days.
In an interview on Saturday in Washington, where he was meeting with the Trump administration, Mr. Netanyahu said that Hamas, not, was responsible for the circumstances of the hostages. He expected at least half a half of the hostages to be launched by the end of next week.
“We have three war goals in Gaza,” Mr. Netanyahu said in Interview with Fox News. One, the destruction of military capabilities and Hamas rule. Two, get all the hostages outside. Three, make sure that Gaza does not pose any threat to Israel again. I am committed to achieving the three. “
Even as the Israeli forces left the main corridor in Gaza, intermittent violence continued. Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Civil Defense Agency in Gaza, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, said that three people were killed and many Israeli shootings were wounded in Eastern Gaza City and warned the residents not to stay away from the Israeli border and an army.
The Israeli army said on Sunday that its soldiers shot many suspects in the northern Gaza Strip, who were “a few hundred meters” away from them, noting that the soldiers fired warning shots. “The visits were identified,” the army said, without providing information about any victims.
The Israeli border community, Matan Vitz, a spokesman for the Israeli border community, said that the Israeli soldiers stationed near the village discovered a breach of the ocean and the people who move in a banned area and that the soldiers shot them.
“From inside Kibbutz, we heard the shooting,” he said, noting that there was a military activity immediately after that, including tank movements and vehicles.
On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Katz said in a statement that there will be no “tolerance” of the threats of Israeli soldiers or societies near the border.
As Netanyahu mentioned, addressing the legislators in Israel on Sunday, after his return from Washington, the link on the border. “No one reaches or enters the surrounding fence,” he said.
Separately, the Israeli army said on Sunday that its soldiers fired warning shots on a ship after the Israeli navy noticed a suspicious container “violating security restrictions in the marine area in the Gaza Strip”; She said the ship has distanced it in response to this.
The Israeli army also maintained raids and patrols in the occupied West Bank, which it says aims to eradicate the militants before the potential attacks. “We will continue to exercise a very strong offensive effort” in the West Bank, “said Lieutenant Herzi Halevi, chief of staff.
Palestinian health officials there said that at least two people, including a woman who was eight -year -old, was killed in the Nour Shamuz refugee camp in Tolkram. The Israeli army said that the police investigation unit began to investigate.
Heba Yazbakfor Gabi Sobilman and Jonatan Reese The reports contributed.
