A Hamas official mentioned yesterday that “no progress” had been made within the ongoing talks to succeed in an settlement to declare a truce and alternate prisoners between the motion and Israel.
The official, who spoke on situation of anonymity, mentioned: “The motion introduced its imaginative and prescient to the mediators in Egypt and Qatar, and we in Hamas are awaiting the enemy’s response to what the motion introduced within the Doha conferences with the mediators. To date there was no progress and no breakthrough.”
“The ball is in Netanyahu’s court docket and we’ll see whether or not he’ll procrastinate and hinder the reaching of an settlement, as he does in each spherical, or if he’ll transfer within the route of reaching an settlement.”
He pressured that “Hamas is prepared for a ceasefire settlement and an alternate deal.”
Final week, Hamas introduced a truce proposal for the Gaza Strip primarily based on two phases that might in the end result in a everlasting ceasefire within the battle with Israel.
It stipulates a primary part that features a six-week truce and the discharge of 42 Israeli prisoners of battle, together with feminine troopers for the primary time.
In alternate, “Israel releases 20 to 30 Palestinian prisoners for each Israeli captive,” and 30 to 50 Palestinian detainees for each male or feminine soldier.
The primary part would additionally embody “army withdrawal from all cities and populated areas within the Gaza Strip, the return of the displaced with out restrictions, and the entry of at least 500 assist vans per day.”
Within the second stage, the motion releases all remaining prisoners of battle in alternate for “an agreed-upon variety of Palestinian prisoners.”
Following this, it calls for “full army withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, reconstruction, ending the siege, and opening the crossings,” and that “Egypt, Qatar, and the US undertake following up and guaranteeing the implementation of the settlement.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to as Hamas’ calls for “unrealistic”, however despatched the top of the Mossad to Qatar to satisfy with Qatari and Egyptian mediators.
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