PNN – A senior member of the Hamas movement announced that the Israeli regime does not want to provide guarantees for stopping the war and withdrawing from Gaza, and that the response will not meet the basic needs of the people of Gaza.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Bassem Naim, a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), emphasized in an interview with Al-Mayadeen that the movement did not reject the plan of Steve Whittock, the US envoy to Gaza, but rather announced its agreement with it last week and accepted it as a negotiable proposal.
He continued: The Zionist side has presented its response to the Witkoff plan, and this response does not agree with the clauses we agreed upon and does not meet the minimum needs of our nation.
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Naim noted that Hamas has nevertheless engaged positively and responsibly with this plan and the concerns that threaten our nation, and we have presented our response to fulfill the minimum of our demands.
The Hamas official continued: We demand that the enemy respect the 60-day temporary ceasefire and allow sufficient humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
The Hamas leader noted that guarantees must be given that the negotiations conducted during this period will lead to an end to the war and the withdrawal of the aggressor forces.
Bassem Naeem continued: What Witkoff brought from the other side is a reaction to our proposals that we agreed to a 60-day ceasefire last week. But the other side insists that this ceasefire be implemented without any guarantees to commit the enemy, because it wants to hand over its prisoners in the first week [and then resume the war.]
This senior Hamas member emphasized that the occupiers are seeking to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza according to their plan, not as was the case before March 2nd.
Bassem Naim noted that the Zionist regime never wants to give a guarantee for the cessation of the war and the withdrawal of hostile forces from Gaza at the end of the negotiations, as it continues to talk about redeploying its forces and security arrangements inside the Gaza Strip.