2024-03-08 05:08:17
“newspaper revealed”Wall Street Journal“Reporting disagreements and conflicting opinions between the leader of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, and Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the movement classified as terrorist in the United States and other countries, regarding the demands that must be presented in the ceasefire negotiations in the Strip.
Conflicting opinions and positions?
The newspaper quoted informed officials as saying, “Sinwar and Haniyeh have conflicting opinions and positions.”
Yahya Al-Sinwar is the leader of the movement in Gaza, and the Israeli army described him as “a dead man walking,” intending to kill him, and Israel confirms that he is “the architect of the October 7 attack.”
Yahya Sinwar, who was largely kept out of the talks until recently, is demanding that Israel commit to discussing a permanent cessation of fighting, putting him at odds with other Hamas leaders, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
Egyptian officials told the Wall Street Journal that “Sinwar believes that Hamas currently has the upper hand in the negotiations, and is pushing to include a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.”
Arab and Israeli officials said they feared that Sinwar was deliberately undermining the talks in the hope that he would rally Arab popular support for Hamas during Ramadan, leading to escalation of tensions in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Qatar threatened to expel Hamas officials from Doha if they failed to convince the movement’s leaders in Gaza to agree to a deal, according to what the Wall Street Journal quoted a Hamas official and Egyptian officials as saying.
Hamas is governed by two entities: its political office in Qatar and its executive arm in Gaza.
In Doha, the political bureau of Hamas is headed by Ismail Haniyeh, while in Gaza, Yahya al-Sanwar is the head of the movement’s political bureau and a prominent leader in its military arm, the “Al-Qassam Brigades.”
Sinwar spent more than 20 years in Israeli prisons before his release in 2011, and in 2017, he was chosen to replace Haniyeh as leader of the movement inside Gaza.
Sinwar’s demands put him at odds with Ismail Haniyeh, head of the movement’s political bureau in Qatar, who is leading talks with Qatari and Egyptian officials, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Haniyeh was willing to accept a six-week cessation of fighting to provide some relief to Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, while using that time to explore the possibility of a permanent ceasefire and full Israeli military withdrawal.
Military and politically.. Who are the alternatives to Yahya Sinwar in Gaza?
Israeli statements indicating that the Hamas movement, classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and other countries, is searching for an alternative to its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, raised several questions regarding who are the “replacements to the architect of the October 7 attack,” and the extent to which the war can be stopped if this change occurs. This is what was revealed by specialists who spoke to Al-Hurra website.
On Thursday, Hamas said that its delegation had left Cairo while ceasefire talks continued in Gaza, which the mediators hope to achieve before the beginning of the month of Ramadan next week.
After four-day talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt to reach a 40-day ceasefire before the month of Ramadan, there are no signs of progress on major points of disagreement, and both parties are exchanging accusations, according to Reuters.
Egyptian security sources said that the talks, which took place without the participation of an Israeli delegation in Cairo, will resume on Sunday, which is the deadline set by the mediators for the two sides to respond to the truce proposal.
Hamas did not confirm the Egyptian statements regarding the existence of a deadline, and leaders in the movement said that they had already clarified their position.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday, reiterated his intention to continue the military campaign in Gaza.
Israel has previously said that its goal is to destroy Hamas and that any ceasefire must be temporary.
Mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been seeking for weeks to reach a six-week truce in Gaza before Ramadan, allowing the release of hostages held in Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the entry of more humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The five-month war between the Israeli army and the Hamas movement has plunged the Gaza Strip into a severe humanitarian crisis, especially its north, which is difficult to access and where hunger has reached “catastrophic levels,” according to the World Food Programme.
The war broke out following the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7 on Israeli sites and areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, according to the Israeli authorities.
In response to the attack, Israel pledged to “eliminate the movement,” and has since carried out a bombing campaign followed by ground operations since October 27, killing 30,800 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, and wounding 72,298, according to what the Hamas Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
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