Gaza – The Palestinian faction movement confirmed on Wednesday evening that it had shown flexibility in indirect negotiations with the Israeli side, considering that the latter is “procrastinating” and refuses to end the war that has been ongoing in the Gaza Strip for 200 days.
This came in statements made by Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the movement’s political bureau, to Al-Aqsa TV, in which he said that the movement “has shown complete flexibility in the negotiations, but the (Israeli) occupation is stalling.”
Al-Hayya added that the movement “wants to end the war from now, and has provided the necessary flexibility for that, but the (Israeli) occupation refuses that.”
He reiterated that “without a complete ceasefire, there will be no agreement” with the Israeli side.
For months, indirect negotiations between Israel and the faction movement have witnessed a stagnation that has not been moved by the continuous attempts at rapprochement and mediation by the Egyptian and Qatari sides.
The faction movement and Israel exchange accusations of obstructing the negotiations, and the movement adheres to an end to the war, the withdrawal of the Israeli army, the freedom for the displaced to return to their areas, the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid, and an end to the siege.
Qatar, Egypt, and the United States are continuing their efforts with the aim of reaching a prisoner exchange deal and a second truce between Israel and Hamas, following the first, which lasted a week until early December 2023, and resulted in a prisoner exchange and the entry of limited aid into the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv holds at least 9,500 Palestinians in its prisons, and estimates that there are regarding 134 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while the faction movement announced that 70 of them were killed in random Israeli raids.
The faction movement accuses Netanyahu of “intransigence” and unwillingness to conclude an agreement. The opposition in Israel also accuses Netanyahu of obstructing the prisoner exchange deal with the faction movement “for political purposes.”
In this regard, Al-Hayya pointed out that Netanyahu “fears judicial and political prosecutions following the war, and even seeks to ignite the region with the flames of a regional war in order to continue in his position,” referring to the accusations and criticisms facing him once morest the backdrop of his management of the war and his government’s failure to anticipate and confront the attack of the faction movement. On settlements around the Gaza Strip on October 7.
Regarding the attack carried out by the faction movement on October 7, 2023, Al-Hayya pointed out that its aim was to carry out a “limited operation” from which they would return a number of captured Israeli soldiers to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners.
But he attributed what happened to the fact that “the Gaza division of the Zionist army collapsed completely,” as a result of the attack.
He stated that “the (Israeli) occupation wanted revenge, with displacement, indiscriminate bombing, and massacres, because it was blind in intelligence and knew nothing regarding the resistance in Gaza, and they failed to predict the flood of Al-Aqsa.”
He said: “The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation achieved its political, strategic and humanitarian dimensions.”
He pointed out that following the Al-Aqsa flood, Israel was subjected to “a shock, a loss of confidence, and a collapse of the security system, so America rushed to save this defeated entity.”
Since October 7, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza, which has left more than 112,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and famine and massive destruction, according to Palestinian and UN data.
Israel continues its devastating war despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the UN Security Council, and despite its appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”
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2024-04-26 00:21:40
