The occupation negotiates with Hamas: "Safe passage" For 120 fighters in Rafah in exchange for the body of soldier Hadar Goldin
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority “Kan” revealed This evening, Wednesday, Israel is conducting secret negotiations with the Hamas movement through mediators, to allow safe passage for dozens of fighters trapped in a tunnel in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, in exchange for the return of the body of the Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, who was killed and whose body was captured during the 2014 war.
Kan reported: Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir held a special session at the beginning of the week regarding the tunnel, where between 80 and 120 Hamas fighters are holed up, and decided that they would not withdraw until Goldin’s body was handed over, stressing that they must be unarmed.
Israeli security sources confirmed that Goldin’s body is actually being held inside the same tunnel in the El Geneina neighborhood in Rafah, and that the army is refraining from bombing it for fear of losing any trace of him, stressing that Hamas is able to hand him over “at any moment.”
The sources described the tunnel as a “complicated path,” and the Israeli army began drawing its maps, but the political level has not yet taken a final decision.
It was "was" It was revealed over the weekend that the mediators (Egypt and Qatar) are pressuring Israel to allow safe passage for fighters trapped inside the areas occupied by Israel, warning that continued clashes in Rafah threaten the implementation of the entire agreement. The negotiations were conducted without Israel’s knowledge at first, and were informed of them at late stages.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to allow the return of fighters to Hamas-controlled areas, but the issue sparked sharp internal disputes between those who see it as an opportunity to pressure the return of the bodies, and those who fear that this will give legitimacy to Hamas’s control over the prisoners.
It is noteworthy that Hadar Goldin is one of two Israeli soldiers killed in the 2014 war, Their bodies have been held by Hamas since then.
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