{"id":31012,"date":"2024-08-20T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=31012"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:18:21","slug":"gaza-truce-negotiations-in-critical-phase-before-cairo-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/gaza-truce-negotiations-in-critical-phase-before-cairo-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Truce: Negotiations in &#8216;Critical Phase&#8217; Before Cairo Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are in a &#8220;critical phase&#8221; ahead of a decisive round in Cairo, amid &#8220;obstacles&#8221; surrounding the agreement and U.S. accusations that Hamas is backing away from a settlement due to its rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s conditions, which it views as &#8220;contradictory&#8221; to previous proposals. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to bridge the gaps with intermediaries during his visit to the region.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to experts who spoke to &#8220;Asharq Al-Awsat,&#8221; &#8220;the risks of undermining the agreement are now greater than the chances of achieving it.&#8221; They expressed cautious optimism about the course of the Cairo talks, relying on &#8220;serious efforts by Washington to force Netanyahu into real concessions,&#8221; especially since he has significantly contributed to &#8220;diminishing hopes,&#8221; which had peaked during the Doha negotiations a week earlier.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">U.S. President Joe Biden accused Hamas on Tuesday of &#8220;backing away&#8221; from the proposed agreement with Israel. Speaking to reporters at Chicago airport, according to &#8220;Agence France-Presse,&#8221; Biden stated, &#8220;Hamas is backing down from the proposed deal.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hamas rejected Biden&#8217;s statements in a statement on Tuesday, describing them as &#8220;misleading allegations that do not reflect the true position of the movement, which is keen to reach a ceasefire.&#8221; The statement accused Netanyahu of &#8220;obstructing the agreement and setting new conditions and demands.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The American website &#8220;Axios&#8221; reported, citing an unnamed source, that there are &#8220;two main obstacles&#8221; to the negotiations: &#8220;the first is Israel&#8217;s insistence on maintaining military control over the Phil.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are in a &#8220;critical phase&#8221; ahead of a decisive round in Cairo, amid &#8220;obstacles&#8221; surrounding the agreement and U.S. accusations that Hamas is backing away from a settlement due to its rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s conditions, which it views as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31013,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions\/31013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}