CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday (Oct 27) proposed a two-day truce in Gaza and restricted hostage change aimed toward securing “an entire ceasefire” after greater than a yr of struggle between Israel and Hamas.
The proposal contains exchanging 4 Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and can be adopted by extra negotiations inside 10 days, Sisi mentioned at a information convention in Cairo.
He didn’t say whether or not the plan had been formally offered to both Israel or Hamas.
Sisi’s intervention got here with Israel persevering with to pound the Palestinian territory, whereas additionally combating a struggle towards Hezbollah in Lebanon and having simply launched air strikes on its main foe Iran.
The strikes on Saturday, the second time Israel has retaliated towards Iranian ballistic missile assaults, triggered international requires restraint.
The United Nations Safety Council will meet on Monday at Iran’s request, with Tehran calling for the physique to sentence the strikes that killed 4 troopers.
At residence, Iranian leaders performed down their significance, saying the strikes had induced solely restricted injury.
President Masoud Pezeshkian informed his cupboard Iran didn’t need struggle however would ship “an acceptable response”.
In response to Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi, Tehran had “obtained indications” hours earlier than the assault. US information website Axios reported earlier that Israel had offered a warning in order to “stop a wider escalation”.
With merchants relieved that Israel’s strikes had averted Iran’s power infrastructure, oil costs tumbled on Monday, falling as a lot as 5 per cent earlier than paring a few of their losses.
Israel launched the strikes in retaliation for an Oct 1 missile assault by Iran, which was a response to the killings of Tehran-aligned militant leaders and an Iranian commander.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the operation “was exact and highly effective, attaining all of its targets”.
Netanyahu, talking at a Jerusalem memorial for Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023 assault that sparked the struggle, was interrupted by shouting from victims’ family members.
The premier has been underneath stress to safe the discharge of captives held in Gaza.
