https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/16\/us-cease-fire-proposal-israel-hamas-00174460<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“U.S. officials have in the past said that Israel and Hamas were in disagreement over just a handful of implementation issues, including the timing of a swap of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody and Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
\nAnother flashpoint in the negotiations includes the status of the Philadelphi corridor, a buffer zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Israel has pushed to control the area in recent weeks as a security measure to deter future attacks into its territory from Hamas. The senior administration official said that the issue has been discussed with Egypt as part of recent talks and said it is \u201cmoving in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some Middle East analysts argued that Hamas\u2019 reaction may not be a large setback in the grand scheme of peace talks. Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. negotiator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said in an interview that \u201cnobody expected\u201d a deal or anything remotely close to it coming out of this week\u2019s cease-fire talks in Doha.<\/p>\n
A bit more time, he added, might even be helpful, as neither side in his view is ready to close on a permanent cease-fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt best, you\u2019re talking about phase one, six weeks, because no one is prepared to go beyond that,\u201d said Miller, who is now a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.<\/p>\n
The region is still bracing for greater conflict, including a potential attack from Iran. And Israel ordered civilians today to evacuate areas in Gaza that had previously been considered to be \u201ccivilian safe zones,\u201d alleging that Hamas militants were firing rockets from the civilian areas to fire rockets.<\/p>\n
Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute think tank in Washington, said pressure is likely to build inside Iran to take action \u201cif it takes too long and it becomes increasingly clear that this is an exercise to hold off attacks and retaliation, rather than actually securing a cease-fire.\u201d”<\/p>\n
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