GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has announced that it will continue to implement the ceasefire agreement in accordance to what was already signed, including the exchange of prisoners as scheduled.
This came in a statement released by Hamas on Thursday following talks held by its delegation with mediators from Egypt and Qatar in Cairo to address ceasefire obstacles, including the Israeli ban on the entry of heavy machinery and mobile homes to Gaza.
Describing the talks in Cairo as “positive,” Hamas said that the mediators were making efforts to remove all the obstacles to implement the ceasefire agreement to the fullest and close the gaps between the parties.
“These talks came in the wake of successive Israeli violations,” Hamas said, adding that its delegation held a meeting in Cairo with Egypt’s intelligence chief Hasan Rashad and talked over the phone with Qatari prime minister Mohamed Al Thani.
The delegation also held talks, during meetings and over the phone, with Egyptian and Qatari officials in charge of the ceasefire negotiations.
Earlier today, Hamas said that it does not want the Gaza ceasefire agreement to collapse, signaling that a crisis threatening to unravel the truce could be avoided.
Three more Israeli captives were scheduled for release in exchange for Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, but Hamas said this week that it was suspending their handover after the Israeli occupation government failed to honor all the ceasefire understandings.
“We are not interested in the collapse of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, and we are keen on implementing it and ensuring that the occupation (Israel) will abide to it fully,” Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif Al-Qanu said.
“The language of threat and intimidation used by US president Donald Trump and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu does not serve the implementation of the ceasefire agreement,” Qanu stressed.
He pointed out that mediators were exerting pressure for the ceasefire deal to be fully implemented by the Israeli occupation, especially the humanitarian protocol, in order to resume the exchange of prisoners on Saturday.
