GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement announced in a statement issued Tuesday evening that it had delivered its response regarding the framework agreement to Qatar and Egypt.
“The Hamas Movement recently delivered its response regarding the framework agreement to the brothers in Qatar and Egypt, after completing leadership consultations in the Movement and with the resistance factions,” the statement reads.
“The Movement dealt with the proposal in a positive spirit, ensuring a comprehensive and complete ceasefire, ending the aggression against our people, ensuring relief, shelter, and reconstruction, lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, and completing a prisoner exchange,” the statement continues.
The statement comes as the US Secretary of State and Qatari prime minister broke the news during a joint news conference in Doha.
Qatar’s prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani welcomed Hamas’s “positive” response to a possible new cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
“We received Hsamas’ response to the framework agreement,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said.
“The Hamas response contains notes but is generally positive,” he added.
The Qatari premier cited progress in the negotiations, but declined to provide further details. “We seek to reach an agreement as soon as possible in cooperation with our partners in Cairo and Washington,” he said. “The war in Gaza must end, and we do not want an escalation in the region or a threat to international navigation.”
