HAMAS and Israel have indirectly resumed negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza. Egyptian state news agency Al-Qahera has announced that peace negotiations and negotiations with the Egyptian Government will continue this week in Cairo. There have been two significant changes in the negotiations over the past few days.

On the one hand, Hamas has changed its position on the call for a permanent ceasefire to start negotiations, according to Reuters and CNN. So far a precondition for negotiation was that Israel should prepare to accept a permanent ceasefire, but HAMAS has accepted a permanent ceasefire in the first phase of the negotiations. In this first phase, which would be extended for six weeks, a provisional ceasefire would be established, which would be guaranteed by mediators. This change has made some leaders of Israel and the United States "optimistic" about immigration reform.

But, on the other hand, Netanyahu has made public a “list of principles”, with some points that could not be negotiated in a possible negotiation to free the kidnapped. The most contentious point is that any agreement should allow Israel to restart the military offensive “until the objectives of the war are met”, that is, until the total destruction of Hamas. A project that is too ambitious and “impossible”, even for the heads of the Israeli Army.

Other conditions imposed by Netanyahu are to maintain control of the border between Egypt and Gaza on the pretext of not introducing weapons into Gaza and rejecting many of the Palestinian prisoners proposed by Hamas for exchange, to “not return terrorists to Gaza”. With all these conditions, Israeli diplomatic sources have warned that the Zionist Prime Minister "has closed the door" to real negotiation, as Haartz said.

A former Israeli negotiator has told CNN that it is not possible to expect HAMAS to accept these conditions, which are what it is asking for. Neither the Zionists’ veto on the list of Palestinian prisoners to release, nor the control of the Philadelphia corridor, a 14-kilometre strip between Egypt and Gaza, now controlled by the Zionist Army.

Netanyahu, for its part, has boycotted the prospect of a ceasefire in recent months. He has now sent negotiators to talk to the mediators of the United States, Qatar and Egypt, but some sources point out that it's a "trick" to gain time, pretending that they're willing to reach an agreement and get stronger on the end of the month trip to the United States. On the other hand, the genocide in Gaza has allowed the Government of Israel to postpone several of the trials it has in its courts and its threat is confined to them. Netanyahu also needs far-right parties to remain in the government, which further complicates the chances of a cease-fire.