Wednesday 08/October/2025 – 01:56 AM
Journalist and media writer Samir Omar, head of the news channels sector at the United Media Services Company, said that there are three very important points in any negotiation with Israel. The first point is the lists of Palestinian prisoners required to be released.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas
Samir Omar added, during an intervention with the journalist Tamer Hanafi, on the “This Evening” program, on the “Cairo News” channel, that Hamas, since it began its negotiations with the Israeli side, has put three names at the forefront of those requested to be released: Marwan Barghouti, Ahmed Saadat, and Hassan Salama, explaining: “All of these are always at the top of the lists, and Israel always says we will not release these people, and is looking for pretexts to refuse to release them.” “about them.”
He continued: “A few days ago, Netanyahu said and pledged in front of Ben Gvir and Smotrich that he would not release Marwan Barghouti – for example -. This is one of the paths that raise problems and Netanyahu is trying to use it to explain his failure to negotiate it.”
He added: “The other matter is the maps for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the cities of the Gaza Strip. The agreement is that there should be at least confidence-building measures and proof of good intentions for Israel to stop its attack on the Gaza Strip. Khalil Al-Hayya told us that we accepted and dealt positively, but the bombing continues and the aggression continues.”
He continued: “Hence, this gives the impression that there is no desire, or at least an Israeli desire, to prove good intentions with a ceasefire. Even if this deal is completed, Hamas needs to create conditions on the ground in order to release all the hostages and release the bodies and remains.”
He explained that the third axis is related to guarantees that these Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip will not be repeated, and therefore, we are talking about 3 tracks in which Cairo has already begun to receive the demands of the Hamas movement, which are the lists that have been released or will be released, Israeli withdrawals from the Gaza Strip and drawing maps of withdrawals, and guarantees that this will not be repeated and that Israel will not return to its aggression against the Gaza Strip.
He stressed that all of this is happening with Egyptian technical support, and everyone remembers that Cairo presented an integrated paper for the ceasefire mechanisms, with withdrawal maps, and the mechanisms for who will govern Gaza the next day, and established a complete formation of a community support committee, and established a complete formation of a technocratic government, which developed all solutions to save the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip from this ongoing aggression. Then, after there was optimism, Netanyahu obstructed this matter, and then Trump, the American president, came back to propose. His vision, Cairo agreed to it positively, and the Arab and Muslim leaders agreed to it and presented their proposals and said, “We welcome these American efforts, and all of this is happening because they want to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.”
Omar revealed that Hamas, in its latest position, is responding to these efforts, so everyone is waiting for what Benjamin Netanyahu will do in the face of the pledges he makes regarding these negotiations in front of Smotrich and Ben Gvir, who seem to be the ones ruling the Israeli decision.
He continued: “We do not want to anticipate events. Tomorrow there is insistence from the parties participating in the negotiations, discussions, and Sharm El-Sheikh meetings for there to be a breakthrough in this matter. Let us wait to see less than 10 hours for the meetings to begin, less than 24 hours for us to know their results.”
