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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025
Hamas leader Haniyeh arrives in Cairo for talks on Gaza

Hamas-Israel war

TBS Report
20 December, 2023, 03:30 pm
Last modified: 20 December, 2023, 04:47 pm

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Hamas leader Haniyeh arrives in Cairo for talks on Gaza

TBS Report
20 December, 2023, 03:30 pm
Last modified: 20 December, 2023, 04:47 pm
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian armed group Hamas, speaks during a press conference after meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon June 28, 2021. File Photo: Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian armed group Hamas, speaks during a press conference after meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon June 28, 2021. File Photo: Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo on Wednesday to hold talks with Egyptian officials, mainly on developments in the war with Israel in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported citing the Palestinian group.

Qatar-based Haniyeh will head a "high-level" Hamas delegation to Egypt, where he is due to hold talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel and others, the source told AFP on Tuesday.

The discussions will be "on stopping the aggression and the war to prepare an agreement for the release of prisoners (and) the end of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip," the source said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk about the visit.

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Under a week-long truce deal last month which Qatar helped negotiate, backed by Egypt and the United States, 80 Israeli hostages were freed in exchange for 240 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

According to the Hamas source, the talks in Egypt will focus on "the delivery of humanitarian aid, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip and the return of displaced persons to their towns and villages in the north".

Haniyeh's visit will be his second to Egypt since the start of the war on October 7, following a trip in early November.

US news platform Axios on Monday reported that David Barnea, the head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, met Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and CIA director Bill Burns in Europe to discuss a potential new deal to free hostages.

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had "just sent the head of Mossad to Europe twice to promote a process to free our hostages."

"I will spare no effort on the subject, and our duty is to bring them all back," he said in a statement.

Meeting with hostage families on Tuesday, Netanyahu said "saving them is a supreme task."

Anger, fear and calls for a ceasefire from hostages' families have intensified after Israeli forces in Gaza mistakenly shot dead three captives who had escaped their captors.

The deadliest-ever war in the narrow territory began after Hamas fighters poured across the border on 7 October and killed about 1,140 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on the latest official Israeli figures.

During their attack, Hamas abducted around 250 people, latest Israeli figures say.

In Israel's retaliatory bombardment and ground offensive against Hamas, at least 19,667 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian territory.

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