“Common ground” was found during recent negotiations in Paris aimed at reaching a truce in Gaza, Jake Sullivan, adviser to US President Joe Biden, said on Sunday.
“It is true that the representatives of Israel, the United States, Egypt and Qatar met in Paris and reached common ground between the four of them regarding the contours” of a possible agreement on the release of the hostages and “a temporary ceasefire,” the White House national security adviser said on CNN.
“I’m not going to go into the details of that because they are still being negotiated,” he said, but “there would have to be indirect discussions from Qatar and the Egypt with Hamas, because in the end, they will have to agree to the release of the hostages. This work is ongoing”.
“We hope that, in the coming days, we can reach a point where there is actually a solid and final agreement on this issue,” Jake Sullivan said on American television.
Egyptian, Qatari, American, Israeli technocrats and Hamas executives resumed negotiations on Sunday in Doha for a truce in Gaza, announced a television close to Egyptian intelligence, and these discussions “will be followed by meetings in Cairo”, according to AlQahera News.
All these talks “follow up on what was discussed in Paris,” adds the channel, citing “senior officials” on condition of anonymity.
An Israeli delegation led by the head of Mossad was in Paris on Friday to follow up on the truce project discussed at the end of January in France with these same interlocutors.