Israel plans to achieve military goals set as part of the operation in the Gaza Strip, during the three days, after which it will be ready to agree on a truce with Palestinian groupings. This was reported by AXIOS edition with reference to unnamed Israeli officials.
According to the publication, in recent days, Egyptian intelligence officers and the UN secret report on the Middle Eastern peaceful process of the Venennest, negotiations with representatives of the Radical Movement of Hamas and the Head of the National Security Council of Israel Meir Ben-Shabbat to conclude a truce between the Parties. Ben-Shabbat listened to intermediaries, but still did not get the mandate from the Prime Minister of Benjamina Netanyahu to conduct subject negotiations.
The publication reports that, as expected, the Israeli government will change its policy on a truce with Palestine on May 20 and will begin negotiations on the cease-fire.
On May 19, the Reuters Agency reported with reference to a source in Egypt, who protrudes the mediator between Israel and Palestine, that the parties to the conflict in principle agreed on a truce, but the details of the agreement are still discussed. The deputy head of Politburo Hamas Musa Abu Marzuk told Lente.ru that a truce agreement with Israel could be achieved soon – within a few hours or two days. The representative of the movement also called the conditions for the truce: both parties should stop the fire at the same time.
The aggravation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel began with clashes in East Jerusalem. Then, on May 10, the Palestinian groupings of Hamas and Islamic jihad, based in the Gaza Strip, began a massive shelling of Israel – a total of over three thousand missiles were issued in the country. In response, the Israeli army called on five thousand reservists and inflicts air strikes for goals in the Gaza Strip. Clashs are still. According to the latest data, 10 Israelis and 220 residents of the Gaza sector were killed from the beginning of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.