Amid the foggy atmosphere that clouded the Cairo meetings regarding the prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas, and the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath sources reported that the movement rejected an Israeli offer to release 1,500 prisoners, in exchange for all those detained by it.

The sources said, on Thursday, that Hamas rejected an Israeli offer for a three-month ceasefire and the exit of its leaders from Gaza.

She also added that the movement insists on stopping the war and the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza.

She also added that Hamas insists on the release of all Palestinian prisoners and that the movement remain in Gaza.

While she pointed out that Egypt and Qatar are trying to pressure to reach a ceasefire within 10 days.

Completing a “serious” exchange deal

It is noteworthy that earlier, the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said that any agreement must guarantee a ceasefire and the withdrawal of the Israeli army from all of Gaza.

He added, in a brief statement issued today, that any agreement must also include the completion of a “serious” exchange deal, as he described it.

No breakthrough

These statements came after the end of the quartet meeting in the Egyptian capital, on Tuesday, without any expected breakthrough to move forward with the negotiations on the prisoner and detainee exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, despite the weight placed by the United States, Egypt and Qatar in order to achieve progress in this regard. File.

It also came after the head of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad), David Barnea, left Cairo yesterday, Wednesday, without providing any Israeli response to a proposal submitted by Hamas regarding the prisoners.

Red line

While information was revealed in Israel about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unwillingness to pay a high price in order to reach the deal and his reservations about the demands of a complete cessation of the war, withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, an international diplomatic source revealed to the Arab World News Agency (AWP) Among the obstacles to reaching an agreement is Hamas’s insistence on releasing Marwan Barghouti, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, which Israel categorically rejects and considers a red line.

The source also explained that Israel informed the mediators in Paris last January, through Mossad Director David Barnea, that it categorically refuses to release Barghouti, “so that Hamas does not obtain a popular achievement, especially in the West Bank, in addition to that his release will cause... Igniting the West Bank and not achieving a state of political stability the day after the war.”

The “veto” itself

It is noteworthy that the Cairo discussions that began on Tuesday came to discuss the broad outlines of the draft of the Osra al-Nur agreement during a meeting held in Paris on January 28 with the participation of the United States, Egypt, Qatar, and Israel. The Israeli delegation in Cairo repeated the same veto, after Hamas continued to cling to the demand for the release of dozens of high-sentenced Palestinian prisoners, including Barghouti.

The last prisoner exchange agreement was concluded in late last November, which then led to the release of 105 Israeli prisoners who were detained by Hamas on October 7, in exchange for the release of approximately 300 Palestinian prisoners.

While 130 Israeli prisoners remain in Gaza, 29 of them are believed to have died, according to Israeli estimates.