CAIRO (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime and Egypt are discussing a new proposal for a prisoner swap between the occupying regime and the Palestinian resistance led by Hamas resistance movement, Haaretz has revealed.
The daily newspaper said that Zionist and Egyptian officials are working on drafting an agreement.
According to the newspaper, Hamas representatives are also part of the intensive talks, while a gag order has been imposed on details of the deal as it has not yet been approved by Zionist prime minister Naftali Bennett or discussed by the regime’s ‘security’ cabinet.
Haaretz said that Zionist assessment is that Cairo wishes to advance the deal in order to get Hamas and the occupying regime back to the negotiating table regarding an overall deal on Gaza.
It noted that officials with the occupying regime’s spy agency met with Egyptian Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamal this week, while Kamal met with Bennett and Zionist war minister in Al-Quds in August.
In September, Hamas announced two offers to achieve a prisoner swap, including the release of all prisoners freed in the Gilad Shalit deal who were later recaptured, as well as the release of all women and minors held by the occupying regime.
The second offer called for the regime to release Palestinian women, children, and some of the prisoners formerly released in the Shalit deal in return for information about the Zionist prisoners of war held in Gaza.