US not really determined to achieve ceasefire in Gaza, says senior Hamas official
A senior member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says there is no real will on the part of the United States to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Osama Hamdan, who represents Hamas in Lebanon, stated on Saturday that the United States’ new ceasefire proposal does not include a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
Hamdan noted that while the ongoing ceasefire negotiations have not yet mentioned which Palestinian prisoners would be released, the potential deal must guarantee clear criteria including Palestinian inmates’ freedom.
The top Hamas official also said the US is trying to give the occupying Tel Aviv regime enough time to perpetrate more atrocities and mass killings.
Egyptian sources, requesting anonymity, were quoted as saying on Saturday that indirect negotiations between representatives from Hamas and Israel on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will resume on Wednesday in Cairo.
Negotiating delegations of the three mediators – Egypt, Qatar, and the United States – and the Israeli team will attend the talks scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, according to the sources.
Representatives from Egypt, the United States, and Israel are currently still in the Qatari capital Doha, which hosted the recent ceasefire negotiations earlier this week, to discuss “the technical points” of the ceasefire agreement in preparation for the talks in Cairo.
The three mediators asserted in a joint statement on Friday that a “bridging proposal” had been presented to Hamas and Israel, which is consistent with the principles of UN Security Council Resolution No. 2735 that calls for an “immediate, comprehensive, and thorough” ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured tens of thousands of others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.
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