The Israeli war cabinet approved on Saturday the sending of a delegation to Qatar to continue the discussions of recent days in Paris on a new truce in Gaza.
The Israelis will also discuss the release of hostages, according to official Israeli sources.
An Israeli delegation led by the head of Mossad (Israeli secret services), David Barnea, traveled to Paris (France) on Friday to continue contacts on a truce project discussed at the end of January in the French capital with their northern counterparts. -American and Egyptian and the Prime Minister of Qatar.
“The delegation returned from Paris, and there is probably room to move towards an agreement,” Tzachi Hanegbi, a national security advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israeli television channel N12 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Israeli “media” indicated that during Saturday night the war cabinet concluded its meeting and provided authorization to send, in the coming days, a delegation to Qatar to continue these negotiations with a view to reaching an agreement for a truce. of several weeks that includes the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
