And historical agreement which ends a 15-month war. After the words of the US president-elect Donald Trump – immediately bounced on the main international media – the official announcement also arrived from the parties involved: following long negotiations, Israel e Hamas they reached an agreement for the cease-fire and for the release of hostages held captive since the beginning of the conflict a Gaza. Thousands of people across the Strip took to the streets to celebrate the news of the truce, which will begin on Sunday 19 January. Meanwhile, the Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani he made it known that “Italy is ready to send a model force Unifil” in the case of a UN mission.
Celebrations in the Gaza Strip
About two hours after Trump’s announcement on his Truth social network (less than five days after taking office in the White House), the statement from the Qatari Foreign Minister also arrived from Doha Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thaniwhich hosted the interlocutors for the negotiations.
“The efforts of Qatar, Egypt and the USA have succeeded in securing the agreement for the ceasefire in Gaza,” al-Thani announced at the end of the talks.
Family members of hostages held by Hamas and their supporters react to news of ceasefire, in Tel Aviv
After the news, Palestinian citizens are immediately took to the streets to celebrate. Across Gaza, people celebrated the agreement, clapping and starting to honk their car horns.
Italy’s reaction: the words of Antonio Tajani
After the news, Palazzo Chigi issued a note to express its satisfaction with the results of the Doha negotiations, a commitment “always sustainedalso as presidency of the G7″. As reported by CEvening hoursour country has promised further humanitarian aid through “the ‘initiative’Food for Gaza‘ for food safety and health”.
“We are also ready to give a military presence (in Palestine, ed.)” in the event of “the United Nations choosing to create a sort of Unifil model administration to unify the Gaza Strip and the West Bank“, declared Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
The leader of Forza Italia defined the agreement as an “important step towards peace”, underlining however that it is not enough: “we must take other steps”, he added.
On Monday 20 January, Tajani will travel to Israel and Palestine to “encourage and facilitate this peace process” and to push further in the direction of a definitive common objective: “that of two peoples and two states“.
Details about the agreement
The agreement will develop in three phases: of these, only the first has been defined in detail.
Within the first 42 days they will come 33 of the 98 hostages freed kidnapped by Hamas at the beginning of the conflict. The currency of exchange is represented by 1,650 Palestinian prisonerswho will be released from Israeli prisons as the army gradually withdraws from the Strip.
Subsequently, 600 trucks of humanitarian aid per day will be admitted within the territory, also thanks to the reopening of the Rafah crossingin Egypt. From the sixteenth day onwards, the details of the second phase will be established, during which the last hostages will be released.
The third phase will instead be dedicated to reconstruction and the installation of a new administration.
Photo source: ANSA
Source: notizie.virgilio.it
