Negotiators Press for Long-Term Israel-Hamas Truce

“The chief brokers of the Israel-Hamas hostage-prisoner exchange are pushing the two sides for a long-term cease-fire that would prolong the truce in Gaza beyond the current two-day extension and start talks that would end the war altogether,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A long-term cease-fire would likely require Israel and Hamas to make hard-to-swallow concessions, such as trading Israeli soldiers for potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails… And it would require Israel to hold back on an offensive in southern Gaza intended to capture the strip and kill Hamas’s top leadership… Hamas could also have to accept demilitarization.”