2024-05-04 20:19:38
A senior member of the terrorist organization Hamas said this Saturday, May 4, that the movement will not accept any agreement that does not provide for an end to the war in Gaza. A declaration that comes in the middle of negotiations regarding a ceasefire with Israel.
A Hamas official said again this Saturday, May 4 to Agence France Presse that the movement, which is currently negotiating a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in Cairo, would not accept an agreement that does not expressly provide for an end to the war. .
“Our information confirms that (Benjamin) Netanyahu is personally delaying an agreement through personal calculations,” this official also confirmed, who requested anonymity, regarding the Israeli Prime Minister who insists on stopping the war held for 7 months before Islamic destruction. movement.
Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said he is determined to launch a major assault on Rafah, a town in the southern Gaza Strip that he considers the last stronghold of Hamas, and end the seven-month-old war to stop. for destroying the Islamic movement.
The mediators – Egypt, Qatar, the United States – have been trying for months to obtain a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, supposed to include in particular a pause in the Israeli attack and the release of Palestinian detainees in exchange for hostages kidnapped during the unprecedented bloody attack by the Palestinian movement from the Gaza Strip on October 7 in southern Israel, which triggered the war.
Peace, “but not at any price”
The Hamas official accused Israel on Saturday of trying to “recover its prisoners without stopping its attack on Gaza.” Ground attacks on Rafah “will not be a walk in the park and the occupier will pay a high price”, he warned.
“Israel’s aggressiveness is likely to disrupt the negotiations and Netanyahu bears full responsibility,” he continued. “We are keen to reach an agreement, but not at any price.”
A senior Israeli official told AFP earlier that Hamas was “blocking any possibility of an agreement” on a ceasefire by demanding an end to the war in its talks with mediators in Cairo.
He also described as “inaccurate” press reports which suggested that Israel had “agreed to end the war, as part of a prisoner exchange agreement”.
Since October 7, Israel and Hamas have concluded only one ceasefire, at the end of November. It lasted a week and allowed the release of 105 hostages, including 80 Israelis and dual nationals, in exchange for 240 Palestinians held by Israel.
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