The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation government has not taken any tangible and serious steps until now towards the humanitarian imitative announced recently by its chief Yahya al-Sinwar for a prisoner exchange deal.
In a press release on Thursday Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanoua said that the success and failure of Sinwar’s initiative depends on the Israeli government’s seriousness and its decision to seize such opportunity.
“The issue of the prisoners is a top priority for the Movement’s leadership in such sensitive times and Sinwar’s initiative represents the human dimension for the release of detainees” Qanoua said.
For his part senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said “his Movement holds several trump cards and will use them to pressure the occupation leaders to yield to the resistance’s conditions in any upcoming swap deal.”
“We reiterate our readiness for the prisoner swap initiative and all circumvention attempts by the enemy do not serve the captive soldiers [in Gaza]” Masri added.
