DOHA (Palestine Foundation Information Center)The Hamas Movement has said that Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the basic keys to the success of the ceasefire and prisoner swap negotiations and refuses to recognize the Palestinian people’s rights.
This came in an interview conducted on Sunday by Al Jazeera satellite channel with Taher an-Nunu, media advisor to Hamas’s political bureau chief Ismail Haneyya,.
“Netanyahu’s primary goal of moving forward with the war [on the Gaza Strip] is to serve his personal and electoral interests and protect himself,” Nunu said.
Nunu accused Netanyahu of thwarting all the attempts by the mediators to make progress in the negotiations over Gaza, describing him and his government as “the most extremist cabinet in the history of the Israeli occupation state.”
“The basic keys of the negotiations are a sustainable ceasefire, ending any Israeli military presence in the Gaza Strip, and allowing in all the Palestinian citizens’ needs, as well as making efforts to reconstruct Gaza and ending the siege imposed on it,” Nunu said.
As for the US administration, Nunu accused it of being involved up to its ears in supporting the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza and providing cover and weapons for it to continue to kill the Palestinian people.
Answering a question about the second round of talks over Gaza in Paris, the Hamas official affirmed that Hamas did not receive any official information about what happened in the recent meetings held in the French capital.
He also said that his Movement already presented a comprehensive vision that includes arranging the Palestinian house based on partnership and democracy, stressing that the future of the post-war Gaza Strip is “part of the Palestinian will.”
Another round of talks in Paris was held last Friday by Qatar and Egypt, the main mediators that have been working for long weeks to secure a deal over Gaza and remove any obstacles placed by the Israeli government and the US administration. The meeting was attended by US and Israeli representatives.
