Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs and close advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ron Dermer, met on Wednesday with senior Qatari officials in Paris to discuss a Gaza ceasefire deal, according to a report by Axios.
Dermer told the Qatari officials that Israel wants all the Israeli captives in Gaza released and Hamas’s “defeat.” Axios did not specify what the Israeli demand means in practice.
Hamas on Wednesday demonstrated its ability to launch a relatively large, sophisticated attack on Israeli troops after 22 months of Israeli assaults.
Hamas accepted a 60 day ceasefire put forward by Qatari and Egyptian mediators earlier this week.
The deal would see half the Israeli captives in Gaza exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and a halt in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Israel has not responded to the proposal.
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