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2025-03-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Egyptian plan would free 5 living hostages on day one, with releases every 7-10 days; Israel uninterested
[IsraelTimes] An Egyptian proposal to end renewed fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
would see five living hostages released on the first day of the restored ceasefire, with another five living hostages released every 7-10 days, two foreign diplomats with knowledge of the details told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.

Dual US-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander would be released on the first day, said the diplomats.

The Prime Minister’s Office has denied receiving any new Egyptian proposal.

According to the diplomats, the IDF would withdraw to the positions it held during the first phase of the ceasefire that collapsed earlier this month. Israeli troops held a buffer zone inside the border with Gaza and were stationed on the Philadelphi Corridor, but had withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor dividing the Strip in two.

Since the resumption of fighting in Gaza last week, IDF ground troops have reoccupied part of the Netzarim corridor.

However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
under the Egyptian proposal, the sides would negotiate over the IDF’s withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the Gazook side of the border with Egypt.

The outlines also guaranteed that negotiations over Phase Two of the ceasefire would take place, something Israel had avoided engaging in despite agreeing to do so.

Israel would release hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners under the Egyptian plan as well.

Mid-level Israeli teams have made multiple trips to Cairo over the past two weeks to discuss the proposal, according to one of the diplomats.

Egypt presented the proposal last week, security sources told Rooters on Monday, with a Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
official saying that the terror group had "responded positively" to the idea.

The security sources added that the US also agreed to Egypt’s plan, but an Israeli official denied on Monday that Jerusalem had received any such proposal.

According to the Israeli official, Israel is still trying to get Hamas to agree to a US-backed proposal spearheaded by Trump’s special envoy to the Mideast, Steve Witkoff, which would not entail a full Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.

The narrower "Witkoff proposal" rejected by Hamas thus far, would have seen the ceasefire extended through April 19 and have the terror group release five living hostages in exchange for a large number of Paleostinian security prisoners.

Israel said it accepted Witkoff’s proposal but was seeking the release of 11 living hostages.

If Hamas does not agree to Israel’s terms, "we will keep increasing the pressure until Hamas breaks," the official said on Monday, threatening "a widespread ground campaign" in Gaza.
It sounds like Israel is not interested in anything less than all the hostages and Hamas entirely gone, not just officially stepping away from the reins of power while playing the power behind the throne for whoever steps up to hold the scepter.

Israel open to ceasefire extension in Gaza, but ‘won’t wait forever,’ says Sa’ar

[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar says Israel has not ruled out negotiating a ceasefire extension with the Hamas terror group in Gaza, but that there is limited time to do so.

“Alongside the IDF’s still-limited operations in Gaza, we are still allowing space for dialogue aimed at reaching an agreement to extend the ceasefire and release the hostages — but we will not wait forever,” Sa’ar tells Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, according to a statement put out by his office.

During meetings at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem today, Sa’ar briefed his counterpart on Israel’s resumed military operations in the Gaza Strip, which began last week after the first phase of a hostage-prisoner exchange ended on March 2.

“Hamas, which insists on continuing to hold the hostages and refuses to demilitarize the Gaza Strip, is pushing for the resumption of war in Gaza,” he says.

“If the Arabs put down their weapons, there will be no more war. But if Israel puts down its weapons, there will be no more Israel,” Sa’ar continues, quoting late prime minister Golda Meir.

“Israel will no longer tolerate the ongoing threat from the Gaza Strip to its security and citizens,” he tells Stenergard, according to the Foreign Ministry.
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