Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mardawi confirmed to Al Mayadeen that the Palestinian Resistance has not yet received anything from the mediators regarding the Gaza ceasefire discussions in the French capital Paris to assess and build on them.
He made it clear that the Israeli occupation entity is “weaving a narrative of negotiations that has no relevance to us [Hamas].”
Al-Mardawi mentioned that the visit of the head of the political bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh to Cairo did not delve into the details of the ongoing negotiations.
The Palestinian official mentioned that Hamas’ delegation to Cairo discussed with the Egyptian officials the issue of breaking the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza to save the people in the north.
He pointed out that “the enemy’s attempts to achieve at the negotiating table what it failed to achieve on the battlefield have all failed,” underlining that the Resistance will not follow through with any position unless it serves its interests and asserts its rights.
Hamas insists on Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
Earlier, Reuters cited a Hamas official as saying that the movement concluded ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital and was now waiting for what the mediators bring back from upcoming weekend talks with the Israelis.
The official confirmed that the Palestinian Resistance movement did not offer any new proposal in Cairo.
“We discussed our proposal with them (the Egyptians) and we are going to wait until they return from Paris,” the Hamas official was quoted by Reuters as saying.
In the same context, the news agency cited two Palestinian officials familiar with the negotiations as saying that Hamas has not changed its position in the latest attempt to reach a deal, stressing that the movement insists on the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan indicated that the Israeli occupation’s stance and responses to mediators are still negative and obstructing the advancement toward a breakthrough solution.
He said that Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “still adopts an intransigent stance toward the demands of the resistance, and its goals clash with all the initiatives proposed.”
Hamdan ascertained that Netanyahu does not care about the release of Israeli captives and rejected four different demands, the first being stopping the aggression of Gaza.
source: AlMayadeen
