[News] Hamas: We've shown flexibility in talks, Netanyahu obstructing deal

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Hamas: We've shown flexibility in talks, Netanyahu obstructing deal
Al Mayadeen English
July 12, 2024
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Hamas says Netanyahu's attempts to add new demands, which were not included
in any of the previous proposals, confirm he is looking for ways to
obstruct the agreement.
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   - People walk on rubble as they inspect the damage at the UN Relief and
   Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in western
   Gaza City's Al-Sinaa neighborhood on July 12, 2024. *(AFP)*

Hamas is suggesting during ceasefire negotiations that an independent
government of non-partisan figures run post-war Gaza and the
Israeli-occupied West Bank, said Hossam Badran, a member of the movement's
political bureau, on Friday.

"We proposed that a non-partisan national competency government manage Gaza
and the West Bank after the war," Badran said in a statement about the
ongoing negotiations for a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange deal between
the Israeli occupation and Hamas, mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the United
States.

The Hamas official stressed that "the administration of Gaza after the war
is a Palestinian internal matter without any external interference, and we
will not discuss the day after the war in Gaza with any external parties."

Another Hamas official told *AFP* that the proposal for a non-partisan
government was made "with the mediators."

The official explained that the government will "manage the affairs of the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the initial phase after the war, paving the
way for general elections."

Badran also called on the international community to put pressure on the
side obstructing the negotiations and force it to stop the aggression
against Gaza, emphasizing that the steadfastness and resilience of the
Palestinian people and the heroic performance of the Resistance "are what
compel the occupation government to comply with our people's conditions and
rights."

This comes after Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
insisted that "Israel" maintain control of the Philadelphi corridor and the
Rafah crossing, key Gaza territories along the border with Egypt, which
conflicts with Hamas' position that the occupation forces must withdraw
from all of the Gaza Strip after a ceasefire.

Netanyahu claimed on Thursday that control of the Philadelphi corridor is
part of efforts to prevent "weapons to be smuggled to Hamas from Egypt."

Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, said that
Netanyahu's frantic attempts to add new demands, which were not included in
any of the previous proposals discussed with the mediators, confirm that he
is still stalling, procrastinating, and looking for ways to obstruct the
agreement.

*Read more: 'Israel' not giving clear answers regarding Hamas demands:
Exclusive
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--not-giving-clear-answers-regarding-hamas-demands--e>*
Israeli-Palestinian mediated talks led to no results: PIJ Deputy-Chief

On Thursday, Mohammad al-Hindi, the deputy secretary general of the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), told *Al Mayadeen* that the latest round
of mediated negotiations between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli
occupation did not lead to any results
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-palestinian-mediated-talks-led-to-no-results--pij-de>
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Al-Hindi explained that Netanyahu and his government's priority is
unrelated to retrieving Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip, but instead, it
is to carry on the war on the besieged territory.

He said that the Palestinian Resistance demanded guarantees from mediators
that the temporary ceasefire for completing the prisoner exchange process
would lead to a permanent ceasefire.

The PIJ official said that Netanyahu is taking advantage of the current
turbulent political scene in the United States, underscoring that the
closer the US presidential election gets, the less pressure his government
could be put under to finalize a deal with the Palestinian Resistance.

As for Washington's role in negotiations, al-Hindi said the US has shown
that it "does not want to hold Netanyahu responsible" for the failed talks.

In his interview for *Al Mayadeen*, the Palestinian official reiterated the
Resistance's negotiating team's positive and flexible performance during
the talks.

*Read more: Netanyahu wants 'war of everyone against everyone': Former
Israeli PM
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-wants--war-of-everyone-against-everyone---former-i>*
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