Opposition leader Yair Lapid accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of setting arbitrary red lines in order to forestall a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza.
“Netanyahu is setting up obstacles to a deal,” Lapid tells the Kan public broadcaster.
“Suddenly the Morag Corridor is the foundation stone of our existence?” Lapid says, referring to a corridor carved out by the IDF in southern Gaza amid reports that Israel is refusing to withdraw from it as part of the truce deal.
“We determined that there would be a corridor between Rafah and Khan Younis, it was an operational decision in the field. But to think that is what will seal thew fate of children buried underground?” he says referring to the hostages in Hamas tunnels.
Due to disagreements over the parameters of the IDF’s withdrawal from Gaza during the 60-day Gaza truce being negotiated in Doha, Israel is slated to submit a new set of maps on Wednesday showing its proposed redeployment of troops after the previous version was rejected by Hamas, a source familiar with the negotiations told The Times of Israel.
A compromise on the issue will take more time to secure, the source says, declining to elaborate further.
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