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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a request from the negotiating team to extend its powers to allow him to reach a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, according to Hebrew media on Tuesday night.

For months, Israel’s negotiating team has been complaining, according to media reports and opposition leaders, about the lack of powers that Netanyahu has given it, which prevents reaching an agreement through indirect negotiations with Hamas.

The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on its website that Netanyahu met with the negotiating team earlier this week.

She continued: Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yisrael Katz “rejected the proposals of the leaders of the negotiating team regarding a deal to return the abductees (Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip), while trying to expand the scope of powers to negotiate and to go beyond the end of the war.”

Netanyahu insists on continuing the occupation of the Netzarim Corridor in the middle of the Gaza Strip, the Philadelphia axis, and the Rafah crossing (right), and refuses to stop the war within the framework of any prisoner exchange deal, while Hamas insists on ending the war. and the entire army of Israel is gone.

During the meeting, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad), David Barnea, and Major General Nitzan Alon, the representative of the army in the negotiating team, “asked for more room to negotiate and they emphasized that without room to more to move in the circumstances, it will not be possible to move forward,” the newspaper said.

The newspaper reported that unnamed informed sources said Netanyahu, backed by Katz, rejected the request.

The sources said: “Unfortunately, there are no talks already and everything is falling apart.

In response to a request for comment from the newspaper, Netanyahu’s office considered the news a “false and biased leak,” and said it was “aimed at placing Israel under the command of Hamas.”

Tel Aviv holds at least 9,500 Palestinians in its prisons, while it estimates that there are 101 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, and Hamas has announced that dozens of them have been killed in random Israeli raids.

Israel’s opposition has accused Netanyahu of refusing to end the war and withdraw from Gaza for fear of collapsing his coalition government, as opposition ministers threatened to pull out. out of it.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a “genocidal” war on Gaza, which has resulted in approximately 148,000 Palestinian deaths and injuries, most of them children and women, and more 10,000 people are missing, amid great destruction and devastation. a famine that killed dozens of children and elderly people, in One of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

For decades, Israel has occupied Arab lands in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, and refuses to establish an independent Palestinian state on the pre-1967 war borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. her town.

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