MOSSAD AND CIA NEGOTIATE A LIMITED TRUCE IN QATAR.

The directors general of the intelligence services of Israel and the United States (Mossad and CIA) are meeting in Doha with the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, in order to negotiate a limited truce that will allow the release of captives held by Hamas, it was officially announced.

In this way, negotiations are resumed with the sole participation of Qatar as a country interested in reaching an agreement that will end the war, if not totally, then partially. For its part, Egypt, another mediating country, has proposed a truce of only two days, to release part of the prisoners.

Both negotiations have little chance of generating an agreement, if one takes into account that the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, said this weekend that the war in Qatar will continue as long as the Hamas movement is not eliminated; A wish that is considered complicated given that this group, described as terrorist in the West, still has hundreds of militants, although it is true that it is greatly weakened after the assassination of its political and military leaders: Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar.

If one examines the results of all the negotiations held in Doha, Cairo and Paris, the result is frankly negative. Only one release of captives was carried out through the mediation of the International Red Cross, in November 2023. Then 13 Jewish captives and 4 foreigners were released. In exchange, Israel freed almost a thousand Palestinian prisoners.

In a statement, Hamas said it had "responded positively to the Egyptian and Qatari efforts that lasted all day." It specified that it had obtained from Israel a "commitment" in particular on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the north of the Gaza Strip and the release of Palestinian prisoners who had been incarcerated for a long time.

These releases in both camps are accompanied by a four-day truce that can be renewed, obtained by Qatar with the support of the United States and Egypt.

The agreement, concluded after several weeks of negotiations, provides for the release of a total of 50 hostages in the hands of Hamas and 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Since then, no agreement has been reached to continue the release of the hostages. Several of them have died in the Israeli air strikes and another three managed to escape. The number of captives still alive probably does not exceed 50 or 60.

Is a new truce in Gaza possible? This question, which analysts are asking, still has no definitive answer as long as Netanyahu maintains the war without the possibility of stopping the bombing of the Palestinian enclave.