Washington, DC – The President of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested that Hamas refuses to accept a Truce of Gaza because it fears what comes after all the Israeli captives are released.
Friday, Trump’s comments at the White House seem to suggest that the United States and Israel are not ready to guarantee a lasting end in war, but rather a short-term truce to release the Israeli captives of Gaza.
“We are in the final hostages and they know what is happening after obtaining the final hostages,” the American president told journalists. “And fundamentally because of this, they really did not want to conclude an agreement.”
Trump blamed the Palestinian group only for the apparent collapse of ceasefire talks, saying that the group was going to be “hunted”.
“Hamas didn’t really want to agree. I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad,” he said.
Thursday, the Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said that Washington interrupted his involvement in negotiations, accusing Hamas of showing “a lack of desire to reach a cease-fire”.
Israel also said that he had withdrawn his Qatar negotiators, where cease-fire talks were held.
Hamas expressed its perplexity to the American position, saying that it had “a sincere commitment to the success of mediators’ efforts” to conclude an agreement.
The group also said that mediators – Qatar and Egypt – have praised its “constructive and positive” position.
Translections have been underway for months to ensure a 60 -day truce that would see the release of 10 Israeli captives and a break in the Israeli bombing of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas insisted that it is looking for a permanent ceasefire.
Witkoff previously said that the truce “will lead to lasting peace in Gaza”.
However, Israeli officials have repeatedly described the return to fights and to remove all the Palestinians from Gaza after the release of the captives.
In fact, the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the country would use the truce to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in an internment camp in the south of Gaza, in preparation for their withdrawal from the territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Washington, DC, earlier this month that Israel “was to finish work in Gaza” despite the cease-fire talks.
In February, Trump called to portray Gaza and transform the territory into “Riviera du Middle East” – a proposal which, according to legal experts, would constitute an ethnic cleaning, a crime against humanity.
Israel has systematically flattened large parts of Gaza, using bombing, explosives and bulldozers in what defenders say they are an effort to make the territory invited.
Netanyahu, however, argued that the departure of the Palestinians would be “voluntary”.
But human rights experts have warned that people do not really have a choice when threatened with bombing and famine.
Trump suggested that Gaza should undergo more violence, saying that Israel “will have to fight”.
“They will have to clean it. You will have to get rid of you,” he said.
Trump rejects French recognition from Palestine
The comments of the American president come while fatal hunger continues to spread to Gaza due to an Israeli blockage hampering the flow of aid and other essential supplies on the territory.
The famine imposed by Israel in Gaza aroused an international condemnation, even relatives of the United States and Israel.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney criticized the refusal of humanitarian aid in Gaza as a “violation of international law” on Thursday.
French President Emmanuel Macron also said that his country would recognize Palestine as a state in the United Nations General Assembly in September.
Before leaving for the United Kingdom on Friday, Trump rejected the declaration of his French counterpart, saying that “does not support any weight”.
“Here’s the good news: what he says doesn’t matter,” said Trump. “It won’t change anything.”
