Israel has set a deadline until the end of Tuesday, when they want to see progress in the process where Hamas will return the remains of dead hostages who are still in Gaza, reports Times of Israel.
The Netanyahu government accuses the terrorist-stamped Islamist group of not adhering to the peace plan. This is because only four of the 28 dead hostages were handed over on Monday, when all 20 living hostages were also exchanged for up to 2,000 Palestinians who have been held in Israeli captivity.
Not long-term?
Hamas has previously stated that they do not know where all the dead are, but Israel believes, according to the public service channel Kan, that the movement has several of the bodies.
Mediators from various Arab countries are working on the issue and do not believe that the peace plan is at risk, according to a diplomatic source for Times of Israel. On Tuesday, the Israeli military announced that they had identified the four bodies that were handed over: One of them is a 22-year-old Nepalese student and one is a 26-year-old Israeli. The identity of the other two is being kept secret in accordance with the wishes of the relatives, writes AFP.
On Monday, scenes of joy took place in Tel Aviv and in cities on the West Bank and in Gaza, as relatives were reunited with people who had been locked up since the outbreak of war in October 2023. After a speech in the parliament Knesset, Trump continued to the Egyptian Sharm el-Sheikh, where he announced that the second phase of the peace plan has now begun.
Many analysts have, however, pointed out that the plan does not contain any long-term political solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which has been an open wound in the region since the founding of the state of Israel in the late 1940s. Now Trump promises that he will soon come up with a message on the issue, according to the news agency AFP.
Many like the one-state solution, some like the two-state solution. We'll see, he says to journalists on Air Force One on his way back to the USA.
I will decide what I think is right, but I will coordinate with other countries.
Three quarters recognize
About three quarters of the UN's 193 member states recognize Palestine as a state. In recent months, heavy players such as the United Kingdom and France have joined the crowd, which has been criticized by the USA.
In an interview with TT in September in Ramallah, the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said that he sees an American recognition in the near future as fully possible.
I would like it to come as soon as possible, he said.
