Qatar says it is working for "a permanent ceasefire" in Gaza after the extension of the truce between Israel and Hamas

Doha says it "has confirmation that 20 hostages held in Gaza can be released in the next two days"

MADRID, 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government of Qatar highlighted this Tuesday that it continues working to achieve "a permanent ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip after the agreement reached on Monday by Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to extend the temporary truce reached for two days. last week.

"The State of Qatar has been working from day one to strengthen its mediation role, first to achieve a truce and then a permanent ceasefire in Gaza," said Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mayed al Ansari in Press conference.

"Our objective is to reach an agreement for a longer humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip," he said, in the midst of international efforts to ensure that the parties achieve a ceasefire - rejected by Israel - after the hostilities unleashed. due to the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas against Israel.

Likewise, he has specified that the extension of the "humanitarian truce" agreed between Israel and Hamas - which will be in force on Tuesday and Wednesday, pending possible new agreements - "will be carried out under the previous conditions," as reported by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera.

Al Ansari has also pointed out that Doha "has confirmation that 20 hostages who are in Gaza can be released in the next two days", to which Israel will respond with the release of another 60 people imprisoned in Israel, all of them women or young people 18 years of age or minors.

"The priority now is the liberation of women, children and civilians," he said, before emphasizing that Qatar "wants to guarantee the continued entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip." "We have sent 27 planes with 910 tons of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip," she concluded.

Israel and Hamas agreed on Monday to a two-day extension of the truce applied since Friday, a four-day period in which 50 Israeli hostages and 19 with other nationalities have been released. Likewise, during this period, the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has increased and 150 Palestinians - all of them women or young people aged 18 or minors - have been released from Israeli prisons.

The Israeli Army launched an offensive against the Palestinian enclave after the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 240 kidnapped. The Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamist group, have put the death toll at nearly 15,000 Palestinians, to which another 230 have been added at the hands of the Israeli Army and attacks by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.