[News] It was Hamas, Not Israel that Managed Gaza Medicine Agreement

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It was Hamas, Not Israel that Managed Gaza Medicine Agreement - Top
Official ExplainsJanuary 17, 2024
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Top Hamas official Dr. Musa Abu-Marzouq. (Photo: Video Grab)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

A top Hamas official, Mousa Abu Marzouq, explained via his account on X
what has taken place regarding the medicine deal mediated by Qatar.

The Qatari foreign ministry had earlier said that it had succeeded in
mediating the first agreement between Hamas and Israel since the last
temporary truce, which ended on December 1. Doha has said that it did so in
cooperation with France.

Abu Marzouq, however, provided an elaborate explanation of what had taken
place leading to the agreement.

“The Red Cross submitted a request to provide medicines to Hamas prisoners
of war, and there were 140 types of medicine, so we set several
conditions,” he wrote.

The conditions, according to Abu Marzouq’s tweet, included the following:

“For every box of medicine, a thousand for our people.

  Providing medicine through a country we trust.

  The Red Cross places medicine in four hospitals covering all areas of the
Gaza Strip, including medicine for prisoners.

  Introducing more aid and food.

  Preventing the inspection of medicine shipments by the enemy Israeli
army.”

Abu Marzouq added that Hamas had refused a French request to provide the
medicine, “due to our lack of confidence in the French government, its
position in support of the Israeli occupation, and its standing in the face
of our people’s aspirations for freedom and return.”

Indeed, France has been one of the first countries to provide unconditional
support for Israel, condemning the Palestinian Resistance and seeking to
establish a Middle Eastern coalition to fight Hamas similar to the one who
fought ISIS.

As an alternative, Hamas sought the help of Qatar to provide the medicine,
according to Abu Marzouq. The latter agreed.

Abu Marzouq’s explanation came in the context of allegations by embattled
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who celebrated the deal as an
Israeli achievement.

“Netanyahu is lying again and deceiving his people once again,” Abu Marzouq
said.

“We are the ones who determined the quantity, the mediator, the
distribution mechanism, and the delivery of the medicine to northern Gaza
despite the Israeli ban and rejection for a hundred days,” according to Abu
Marzouq.

The Qatar News Agency (QNA), citing Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid
al-Ansari, said that the medicine and aid will be sent on Wednesday to the
Egyptian city of Al-Arish, in Sinai. Then, it will be transferred on board
two planes belonging to the Qatari armed forces, before the containers make
their way to Gaza.

*(The Palestine Chronicle)*


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