On Sunday, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denounced the statements of US President Joe Biden, in which he said that the ceasefire is contingent on the movement releasing detainees in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas considered Biden’s statements a retreat from the results of the last round of negotiations in Cairo, which led to the movement’s approval of the proposal of the Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with the knowledge and information of the American mediator.
She said that she showed, in all stages of the negotiations to stop the aggression, the necessary flexibility to move towards achieving an agreement, explaining that she culminated this approach by approving the latest proposal, before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly reversed the course, by initiating his aggression against the Palestinian people in Rafah, Jabalia, and Gaza. .
She stressed that Netanyahu’s reversal of the negotiating track is confirmation of his pursuit of the continuation of the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip and his indifference to the lives of his prisoners.
Hamas added that Biden’s position reaffirms the American bias in favor of the Israeli government’s policy and its continuation of providing political cover and military support for the war of extermination it is waging against the Palestinian people, and allowing more time for the occupation army to complete its operations of destruction, killing and annihilation in the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday, Saturday, Biden announced that a ceasefire could happen “tomorrow” if Hamas released the Israeli detainees.
Last Monday, Hamas announced its acceptance of the mediators’ proposal for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange, but Netanyahu claimed that the movement’s position aims to undermine the army’s entry into Rafah, and is far removed from Tel Aviv’s necessary requirements.
In response to what the movement considered Netanyahu’s evasion of reaching an agreement to stop the war, the movement announced the day before yesterday, Friday, the start of consultations with the leaders of the Palestinian factions in order to reconsider its negotiating strategy.
She said that Israel’s rejection of the mediators’ proposal, through the amendments it made to it, brought things back to what it described as square one.
Although Hamas accepted the mediators’ proposal in the recent Cairo negotiations, last Tuesday Israel began its attack on Rafah, which was crowded with displaced people.