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7/8/2024–|Last update: 7/8/202404:56 PM (Makkah Time)
The leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement said:agitation) Osama Hamdan The process of negotiating a ceasefire War on Gaza And exchange prisoners with Israel Through intermediaries will continue after selection Yahya Sinwar Head of the Political Bureau of the Movement, succeeding To Ismail Haniyeh who was assassinated in the Iranian capital TehranWhile the US Secretary of State confirmed Anthony Blinken The final decision is in Sinwar's hands.
Hamdan said in statements he made to the Turkish Anadolu Agency that “the negotiation issue was managed by the leadership's decisions, and Sinwar was not far from the negotiation process, but was present in its details.”
He added that the negotiation process will continue, especially since the problem in the process is not the change that occurred in Hamas, but in the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin NetanyahuAnd in America Which was not honest in its mediation or in its attempt to pay forcease-fire.
He added, “Sinwar has a high degree of flexibility in managing public affairs and preserves the rights of the Palestinian people.”
He added, “The Israelis should reconsider a lot when they talk about the issue of negotiations, because the logic of negotiations from which the movement started was to stop the aggression against our people and go to the prisoner exchange, while the Israelis tried to recover their prisoners without a price and kill our people in the process.” Genocide“.
He explained that his movement will remain committed to working towards a ceasefire and a complete withdrawal ofIsraeli occupation forces from Gaza strip…and ending the siege, rebuilding the Strip again, and then the prisoner exchange process.
Regarding previous initiatives to stop the war, Hamdan said, “Last May, we accepted an initiative presented by the mediators, then Netanyahu rejected it after 3 weeks. After that, another paper was presented that we accepted, and Netanyahu is still procrastinating.”
He added, “If assassinating Haniyeh was one of Netanyahu's goals to change the course of the negotiations, then he is delusional. The basis of the negotiations is fixed, and the men who followed the negotiations during Haniyeh's leadership will continue to work with Sinwar, who was present in all the details of the negotiations.”
American invitation
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the new leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, must decide on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip with Israel.
Blinken described Sinwar as “the primary decision maker regarding the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.”
“He has to decide whether to move forward with a ceasefire that would clearly help many Palestinians who desperately need an end to the war,” the US secretary of state added at a news conference in Maryland.
He pointed out that “work on the agreement continued even with the recent events in the region, and the negotiations reached their final stage, and we strongly believe that they will reach the finish line very soon.”
He said that the US President Joe Biden I agree with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani And the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi He stressed the need to complete the negotiations that have reached the final stage, and he saw that it is important for all parties to work on putting the final touches on the ceasefire agreement as soon as possible.
On Monday, the foreign ministers exchanged Egypt AndQatar The United States, during separate phone calls, discussed the latest developments in the mediation and the importance of a ceasefire, according to official statements from the foreign ministries of Egypt and Qatar.
Pressure on Israel
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aati called on his American counterpart to “pressure Israel to stop practicing the brinkmanship policy, and to engage seriously and with real political will in the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza.”
For months, Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been leading indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel, but they have not resulted in an agreement due to Israel’s rejection of Hamas’s demand to end the war, withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip and return displaced Palestinians to the north of the Strip.
Mediation efforts were complicated by the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in a bombing of his residence during a visit to Tehran at the end of July.
While I accused Iran And enthusiasm Tel Aviv With the assassination of Haniyeh, Israel remains silent, even though its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted at his country’s responsibility.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 131,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing.
In contempt of the international community, the occupation army continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and to improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
