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The Trump administration has held direct interviews with Hamas on the discharge of the American hostages detained in Gaza and on the opportunity of a wider settlement to finish the struggle. This was reported by the Axios web site, which has requested two sources to the direct data of the discussions.

The interviews, held by the American presidential invitation for the affairs of the hostages Adam Boehler, haven’t any precedents: the United States had by no means labored, in truth, immediately with Hamas, who had designated as a terrorist group in 1997.

The conferences between Boehler and Hamas officers have taken place in Doha in latest weeks. The interviews centered partly on the discharge of the US hostages, but in addition included discussions on a wider settlement to launch all of the remaining hostages and attain an extended -term respite, say the sources. No settlement, nonetheless, has but been achieved.

The correspondent for the White House Steve Witkoff additionally deliberate to go to Doha this week to satisfy the Qatar Prime Minister on negotiations for the ceasefire, however canceled the journey on Tuesday night after seeing that there have been no progress from Hamas, stated an American official.

Negotiate immediately with Hamas, specifically with out the adhesion of Israel, is a step that the earlier administrations haven’t taken. At the second 59 hostages are nonetheless retained by Hamas in Gaza. The Israeli protection forces confirmed that 35 of them died. Israeli intelligence believes that 22 hostages are nonetheless alive and the state of two others is unknown.