The Hamas Chief in Gaza said the group was ready to immediately negotiate an agreement to exchange all hostages for an agreed number of Palestinians arrested by Israel, as part of a broader deal to end the war on the enclave.
In a televised speech, Khalil Al-Hayya, who leads the Hamas negotiating team for indirect conversations with Israel, said the group declined a provisional truce agreement.
“Netanyahu and his government use partial agreements as coverage for their political agenda, which is based on the continuation of the extermination and hunger war, even if the price is the sacrifice of all their prisoners (hostages). We will not participate in the approval of this policy,” Hayya said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Egyptian mediators have worked to reactivate the January ceasefire agreement, which interrupted the fighting in Gaza before failing last month. However, there were few signs of progress, with Israel and Hamas to blame each other for the lack of agreement.
The last round of negotiations, held on Monday (14) in Cairo to restore the ceasefire and free Israeli hostages, ended without any apparent advance, said Palestinian and Egyptian sources.
Hayya stated that Hamas accepted a proposal from the mediators, Qatar and Egypt, to release some hostages in exchange for the Palestinians arrested by Israel and begin negotiations to implement the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, which includes the end of the war and the removal of the Israeli forces of Gaza.
He accused Israel of offering a counterproposal with “impossible conditions.”
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Source: CNN Brasil
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