Can an armistice be reached in Gaza? Important information about this

Can an armistice be reached in Gaza? Important information about this

Donald Trump has made no secret of his wish to make the to end war in gaza . After the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran, which ended with a ceasefire, the US President is intensively pushing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. He expressed that he "hope that it will happen next week" if White House will be.

Current status of the negotiations

Trump announced on Tuesday that Israel had "approved the necessary conditions" in order to complete a 60-day ceasefire. Netanyahu will convene its entire cabinet on Saturday evening to discuss it. Meanwhile, Hamas said that she was checking the latest proposal without confirming whether she would accept it.

The two sides have long had contradictory demands that the negotiators could not bridge. Nevertheless, there are new hopes for an agreement, since the war is now in the 21st month. Here are the most important information.

why now?

Since the Israeli-Iranian ceasefire on June 24th, the agents of Qatar and Egypt-as well as the United States-have increasingly demanded a new armistice for Gaza. A spokesman for the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN that the Agreement between Israel and Iran had created "momentum" for the last talks between Israel and Hamas.

The Netanyahu government is exposed to growing international criticism because of the suffering that the war inflicts on the Palestinians in Gaza. In March, Israel imposed a complete blockade of humanitarian deliveries for the enclave, which was relaxed in May after numerous Global experts had warned that hundreds of thousands could soon starve.

In the last few days, hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza have Israeli attacks . In addition, the distribution of aid goods is made more difficult by violence, with hundreds being killed while trying to maintain food from the controversial US Humanitrian Foundation (GHF).

The pressure on Netanyahu also grows within Israel. Opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Wednesday that he would join the coalition government to enable a hostage deal.

Trump predicted on Tuesday that Netanyahu wanted to end the war. "He wants it. I can tell you that he wants it. I think we'll have an agreement next week," Trump told reporters.

content of the proposed agreement

The exact details of the new proposal for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of hostages are still unclear. The Catar Prime Minister had previously said that Qatar and Egypt were working on finding a “middle ground” in order to arrive from the ceasefire that was proposed in the USA months ago. In this proposal, a 60-day ceasefire was planned in which Hamas 10 living Israeli hostages and the corpses of another 18 hostages that were taken from Hamas during the attacks on October 7, 2023.

of the 50 hostages that are still in Gaza, according to the Israeli government, assumes that at least 20 of them still live.

The United States and the intermediaries have given stronger assurances with regard to the achievement of an agreement to terminate the war in Gaza as part of the updated proposal, an Israeli official told CNN. The official did not state the exact wording in the document, but said that the formulations were stronger than previous assurances.

Israel's demands

At the weekend, the Prime Minister rhetorically changed his approach and represented the goals of Israel so that for the first time the return of the hostages had priority before what he once described as the "top goal", defeating Hamas. Netanyahu found that "many opportunities have opened up" after Israel's military operations were able to take place in Iran, including the opportunity to bring everyone who was still captured by Hamas. "First we have to save the hostages," he said. "Of course we also have to solve the Gaza problem and defeat Hamas, but I am convinced that we will meet both missions."

What about Hamas?

Hamas has three main demands: a permanent end of the fights, the implementation of humanitarian aid by the United Nations and the withdrawal of Israel on the positions that it held on March 2 of this year before it renewed its offensive and occupied the northern part of the strip.

A high-ranking Hamas representative told CNN at the end of May that the group was “ready to return the hostages in one day-we only need a guarantee that the war will not return afterwards.”

In response to the earlier ceasefire proposal in May, Hamas demanded US failures that negotiations on permanent ceasefire will be continued and that the fights will not be resumed after the 60-day break.

past ceasefire

In the 21 months of the war between Israel and Hamas there were only ceasefire for nine weeks. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 57,000 people, including more than 17,000 children, were killed in the Gaza during the fights.

The first ceasefire came into force in November 2023, but only held a week. During this time, 105 hostages from Gaza were released, in exchange for a variety of Palestinian prisoners. A second ceasefire was only agreed in January 2025, shortly before Trump returned to the White House. In a little more than eight weeks, the first "phase" of the ceasefire, Hamas 33 hosted hostages, while Israel released around 50 Palestinian prisoners for every released Israeli.

In the planned second section, Israel should agree to a permanent ceasefire. But Israel continued his offensive on March 18, broke the ceasefire and set the negotiations because it wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages.

This reporting was supported by CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, Kristen Holmes, Kylie Atwood, Dana Karni, Michael Schwartz and Oren Liebermann.