GAZA, (PIC)
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan held on Wednesday evening a press conference in Beirut, revealing the latest updates on ceasefire talks in Doha, Qatar.
Hamdan hailed the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for their steadfastness in the face of the Israeli genocidal and starvation war, saying that “Hamas is striving with every effort and employing all its strength to end this aggressive war on our people, intensifying its efforts and endeavors in all directions to bring in relief and humanitarian aid and to heal the wounds of our patient and steadfast people on the land of resilient Gaza”.
“The Movement is following the course of negotiations through our mediator brothers in Egypt and Qatar, and has presented a comprehensive vision based on the principles and foundations we consider necessary for an agreement. This vision crystalizes the priorities of our people in stopping the aggression, returning the displaced to their homes, the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, and intensifying the entry of relief aid,” Hamdan added.
“The Movement has presented its vision regarding the prisoner exchange file, showing high positivity and flexibility, aiming to overcome obstacles to the agreement and to shorten the time to stop the massacres and the genocide war against our unarmed civilian people,” he highlighted.
Hamdan said, “The Israeli response to the demands of the resistance was a negative response in general, not meeting the demands of our people and resistance. It even backtracked from agreements previously presented to the mediators and conveyed to us through them, deepening the policy of stalling, which could obstruct the negotiations and possibly lead them to a dead end.”
Hamas, he added, responded to the mediators’ demands and provided the flexibility that paves the way for the agreement, adding that the ball is now in Israel’s court.
“We affirm that the Movement is monitoring the behavior of the occupation. With every round of negotiations, it escalates its crimes against our people, thinking that such crimes might gain it advantages at the negotiation table. We reiterate that what the occupation has not taken in the military battle and the crime of genocide, it will not take with political tricks and negotiation games,” the Hamas official said.
Hamdan said, “We state clearly: Netanyahu personally, his terrorist government, and those who supported and still support his aggression bear all the responsibility for disrupting all efforts aimed at achieving a prisoner exchange deal and stop the aggression.”
