According to the latest report of the Global Times, Cairo News TV recently revealed that the relevant parties have reached a consensus and decided to resume negotiations, aiming to promote a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
This information comes from a high-ranking official with close ties to Egyptian intelligence.
On the morning of the same day, the official also revealed that mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the United States were in close consultation with the Hamas delegation in Cairo.
Hamas officially announced its acceptance of the mediator's proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on the 6th, but the Israeli side said that Hamas's current conditions are far from their expectations.
The dispute between Palestine and Israel has a long history.
In recent years, geopolitical changes have made the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have had a profound impact on the global political landscape.
On the one hand, the increasingly fierce game between major powers such as the United States and Russia in the Middle East has exacerbated the complexity of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. On the other hand, the spread of terrorism and extremist ideology has also posed severe challenges to the security of the Palestinian-Israeli region.
Against this backdrop, the decision of the parties to return to the negotiating table underscores the urgency of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli issue.
For now, it appears that the central topic of the negotiations will be to promote a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
This may seem like a simple goal, but it involves many complex issues.
The current Palestinian-Israeli situation remains complex and sensitive. While the return of the two sides to the negotiating table has brought a ray of hope, it does not herald the end of the conflict.
In fact, the resumption of negotiations comes after months of intense standoff between the Palestinians and Israelis, including rocket attacks, air strikes, and military operations on the ground.
These incidents have not only worsened the living conditions of the local population, but also exacerbated international concerns about the stability of the region.
The draft ceasefire proposal, previously shown to Qatar's Al Jazeera by Hamas officials, shows that the proposal consists of three phases aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza and involves the release of detained Israeli and Palestinian personnel, among other things.
Each phase is expected to last approximately six weeks. Under the proposal, Hamas would gradually release 33 detainees, including women, people over the age of 50, sick or non-combatants under the age of 19.
At the same time, Israel will release the Palestinians it detained.
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office later issued a statement stating that although Hamas's proposal was "far from Israel's "core demands," Israel would send a high-level delegation to Egypt to "maximize the likelihood of reaching an agreement acceptable to Israel."
The statement also stressed that Israel's wartime cabinet had unanimously decided to continue operations in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah in order to exert military pressure on Hamas in order to advance the release of Israeli detainees and the achievement of other strategic objectives.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced early in the morning that it had asked residents of eastern Rafah to evacuate to the "humanitarian zone" as soon as possible.
A military spokesman said about 100,000 people were being evacuated from eastern Rafah.
Video released by the military shows Israeli tanks entering the Rafah crossing and raising the Israeli flag.
The military said the operation was limited in scale and targeted to "cut off Hamas's arms smuggling channels."
White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator Kirby stressed that the operation was not a full-scale ground offensive originally planned by the Israeli army.
Rafah is the last major city in the Gaza Strip not to be captured by Israeli ground forces, and a large number of Palestinian refugees have fled from the north and center, numbering more than a million.
The Israeli side has repeatedly stated that regardless of whether an agreement is reached or not, the Israeli army will attack Rafah in order to rid the remnants of Hamas.
After the outbreak of the new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States, as one of the mediators of the conflict, clearly took sides in the conflict, and even ignored the serious humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's bombing of Gaza, and repeatedly used its veto power in the UN Security Council to veto the proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, and voted against the ceasefire resolution proposed by the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly.
However, the United States has repeatedly criticized Israel, and President Biden has warned Israel that an Israeli attack on Rafah would be a violation of the "red line".
Recently, the heads of state of China and France issued a joint statement after their meeting in France.
The statement made it clear that China and France condemn all violations of international humanitarian law and indiscriminate attacks against civilians.
This is both a clear condemnation of Israel's indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Gaza and an allusion to the United States, which supports Israel.
At the same time, China and France oppose Israel's forcible relocation of Palestinian civilians, which is almost the exact opposite of Israel's strategy in the Middle East.
This Sino-French joint statement may be seen by Americans as a "betrayal" of the United States by France.
If Egypt's international influence is not enough to influence Israel's decision-making, then this joint statement between China and France is undoubtedly a public blow to Israel.
Since last October, Israel's indiscriminate killings in the Gaza Strip have caused a serious humanitarian crisis on the ground, killing tens of thousands of civilians.
The United States, on the other hand, has provided Israel with all kinds of support and convenience, both openly and covertly, further exacerbating the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip.
Today, there are protests against Israel's atrocities around the world, and the United States is no exception.
However, the United States has tried to cover up the truth by enacting the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act to suppress the wave of anti-Israel in the country.
In fact, the solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has long been clear, namely, the full implementation of the two-state solution. But the problem is that Israel refuses to implement the program, while the United States condones it.
At present, Palestine has proposed to the United Nations General Assembly that it be recognized as a Statecraft without direct membership of the United Nations and that it be accorded the same rights and privileges as other States Members of the United Nations.
The United Nations General Assembly is likely to vote on the draft this Friday to avoid a situation in which the United States uses its veto.
This year is an election year in the United States, and it is obviously more important for Biden and the Democratic Party to keep "in power" than to "support Israel".
Therefore, the abrupt cessation of arms deliveries by the US government to Israel is in fact exerting pressure on Israel not to expand the conflict.
France, on the other hand, has a completely different perspective from the United States, and has shown a firmer "peaceful attitude" on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Previously, the domestic media reported that there are currently 600,000 Jews in France, but the Muslim community exceeds 5 million, so the development of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will even affect whether the two ethnic groups in France can live in harmony, and if the conflict between the two ethnic groups will directly affect the social order in France.
It is worth mentioning that China Youth Network reported that before the official Israeli attack, the White House had called, and US President Biden personally named Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and persuaded him for half an hour, hoping to persuade Israel to abandon the dangerous idea of a large-scale attack on Rafah.
Although it is unclear what Netanyahu's specific response is, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby later described the call as "extremely constructive."
To be clear, Israel may be able to ignore the warnings of its "ally" the United States, but it cannot ignore the broad voice of the international community, especially the recent high-level statement issued by China and France on the situation in the Middle East, explaining that as permanent members of the Security Council, China and France are committed to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and condemning all violations of humanitarianism.
The two sides stressed that the top priority at the moment is to immediately cease fire and resolve the issue through political means on the basis of the "two-state solution." It is clear that this joint statement by China and France has drawn a bottom line for the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and Israel's attempt to "take it all" is almost impossible to achieve.