{"id":44870,"date":"2025-03-02T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-proposes-temporary-cease-fire-through-ramadan-and-passover\/02\/03\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:42:07","slug":"israel-proposes-temporary-cease-fire-through-ramadan-and-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-proposes-temporary-cease-fire-through-ramadan-and-passover\/02\/03\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Proposes Temporary Cease-Fire Through Ramadan and Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel proposed a temporary cease-fire extension in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover holidays, the prime minister\u2019s office <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IsraeliPM_heb\/status\/1895961200242147452\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> around midnight on Saturday as the initial phase of the truce was expiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It appeared to be the Israeli government\u2019s effort to make its opening negotiating position clear, as it and Hamas struggle to move from the first phase of the cease-fire into a second, more comprehensive phase as the deal initially called for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli announcement came after a cabinet meeting led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and attended by Israel\u2019s minister of defense, senior defense officials and a negotiating team, according to the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But there is still much uncertainty about what will happen next in Gaza. Earlier Saturday, a Hamas spokesman told Al-Araby TV that the militant group had rejected Israel\u2019s framework for an extension, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/hamas-rejects-israels-formulation-extending-first-gaza-ceasefire-phase-2025-03-01\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both Israel and Hamas have reasons to avoid another round of fighting, at least for now. Hamas wants to give its forces a chance to recuperate, while Israel wants to bring home the remaining hostages. But <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-truce-philadelphi-corridor.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the prospect of a comprehensive agreement seems remote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Hamas is unlikely to accept Israel\u2019s offer without further negotiations, according to Aaron David Miller,<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>a former State Department Middle East analyst and negotiator who is now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The proposal, he said, \u201callows Israelis to get hostages back without making reciprocal commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under Israel\u2019s proposal, which it attributed to the U.S. envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff, half of the remaining hostages held in Gaza would be released to Israel on the first day of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If, at the end of the temporary extension a permanent truce had been reached, the rest of the hostages would then be returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which started over the weekend, concludes at the end of March, while the Jewish holiday of Passover starts the evening of April 12 and runs until April 20. Under this proposal then, together they would give Israel and Hamas about seven weeks to reach a comprehensive agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHamas is not going to return all of the hostages until it has ironclad guarantees that the Israelis will withdraw their forces and formally declare and abide by an end of the war,\u201d Mr. Miller said. \u201cNo one is going to give Hamas that guarantee,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the agreed-upon deal, which was set forth in the final days of the Biden administration. Phase 1 of that deal, which ended March 1, allowed for a six-week truce to negotiate the terms for an end to the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The terms of the agreement included the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Israel over the last weekend delayed the release of hundreds of prisoners in protest of Hamas\u2019s having paraded Israeli hostages in public spectacles before handing them over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The negotiations between Hamas and Israel that were supposed have been completed by this weekend still have not begun in earnest, though officials from each party did visit Cairo, the Egyptian capital, to discuss the next steps. Mr. Netanyahu has stated that Israel was ready to resume fighting if Hamas did not disarm voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas has avoided outright calls for a resumption in hostilities, though the group has refused to surrender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/world\/middleeast\/israel-cease-fire-proposal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel proposed a temporary cease-fire extension in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover holidays, the prime minister&rsquo;s office announced around midnight on<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-proposes-temporary-cease-fire-through-ramadan-and-passover\/02\/03\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}