{"id":285423,"date":"2025-01-20T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=285423"},"modified":"2025-01-18T05:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:48:05","slug":"israelis-palestinians-from-a-ceasefire-to-negotiations-in-good-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/israelis-palestinians-from-a-ceasefire-to-negotiations-in-good-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis-Palestinians: From a Ceasefire to Negotiations in Good Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>17 Jan 2025 <\/em>&#8211; On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, starts the implementation of the agreement between the authorities of Israel and Hamas concerning the Gaza Strip and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.\u00a0 It is to be a 42-day ceasefire during which 33 Israeli hostages are to be released and 100 Palestinian prisoners to return home.\u00a0 During this ceasefire, the United Nations authorities said that they would scale up delivery of humanitarian relief and start the rebuilding of medical facilities destroyed by the 15 months of war since 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is a critical first step, but we must mobilize efforts for the broader process of negotiations in good faith.\u00a0 Although imperfect and still tenuous, the ceasefire is a cause for rejoicing.\u00a0 People will return home to start the long process of healing.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations in good faith must be broader than with Hamas. There needs to be a renewed Palestinian Authority with the participation of a broad section of the Palestinian population. The future of the West Bank is not covered by the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us outside of Israel &#8211; Palestine can work for the creation of an atmosphere of trust and dialogue.\u00a0 There is much to be done to create this atmosphere.\u00a0 A wide range of initiatives is needed and most welcome!<\/p>\n<p><em>______________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rene-Wadlow--e1695369695147.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-244689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rene-Wadlow--e1695369695147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>. He <\/em><em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em><em>, and <\/em><em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Jan 2025 &#8211; On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, starts the implementation of the agreement between the authorities of Israel and Hamas concerning the Gaza Strip and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.\u00a0This agreement is a critical first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[87,865,85],"class_list":["post-285423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285424,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285423\/revisions\/285424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}