The head of the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet), Ronen Bar, is holding talks with the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Major General Abbas Kamel, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, within the framework of negotiations regarding Israeli prisoners and hostages held by the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip.

This came, according to what was reported by the Israeli media, this evening, Tuesday, coinciding with the statements issued by the US President, Joe Biden, in this regard, in which he said that he “believes that the detainees in the Gaza Strip will be released,” and added that he “does not want to go into detail.” In the details.

Biden was asked by a journalist at the White House about the possibility of reaching a deal to release Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, and he replied: “I speak with the people involved (in the negotiations to release the hostages) every day. I believe this will happen, but I do not want to go into details.” “My message to families: Wait, we are coming.”

In response to Biden’s statements, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement in which he said that his government “has been working continuously since the beginning of the war to liberate the abductees, including applying increasing pressure since the beginning of the ground incursion,” and he continued, “When we reach something concrete, we must Announce it, we will do it."

Meanwhile, the White House announced that the American envoy is on his way to the Middle East to hold talks with officials in Israel, the West Bank, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, noting that the American President refused to answer a question regarding the progress of the indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, and the extent of the closeness to reaching an agreement on the prisoners. And hostages.

Regarding the Shin Bet chief’s visit to Cairo, it was reported that Barr arrived in the Egyptian capital this morning, and met with the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Major General Abbas Kamel, and the talks focused on “efforts to release hostage prisoners and Egypt’s role in Gaza during the (Israeli) war on the Gaza Strip, as well as in The day after the war."