[News] Hamas: “We are ready to begin 2nd phase of ceasefire”

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 Hamas: “We are ready to begin 2nd phase of ceasefire”

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DOHA, (PIC)

Head of the Hamas Movement in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, said that the
Movement’s “readiness for immediate engagement in negotiations to implement
the terms of the second phase.”

The Hamas leader detailed the terms as follows: complete ceasefire and
achieving a sustained calm, the full withdrawal of the Israeli occupation
forces from the Gaza Strip, and finalizing the prisoner exchange deal.

“Hamas has proven, along with the resistance, its seriousness in
implementing the agreement with full responsibility,” he said in a
televised speech.

“We stress the need to oblige the occupation to implement all provisions of
the agreement without procrastination.”

“The enemy is still procrastinating and evading engagement in the second
phase negotiations,” al-Hayya added.

“We also emphasize the need to secure all of this with binding
international guarantees, as stipulated in UN Security Council Resolution
2735,” he clarified.

“We continue to work tirelessly, day and night, across all fronts,
especially with the mediators—Qatar and Egypt—to compel the Israeli
occupation to uphold the terms agreed upon in the first phase.”

Al-Hayya pointed out that the resistance will hand over four bodies of
Israeli captives on Thursday, February 20, including the bodies of the
“Bibas” family in exchange for the release of a corresponding number of
Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, February 22, by the Israeli occupation
as per the agreement. The remaining agreed-upon bodies will be handed over
in the first phase during the sixth week.

The Palestinian resistance will also release the remaining six living
Israeli captives, agreed upon in the first phase, on Saturday, February 22.
Among them are the captives Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu. In return,
the Israeli occupation is to release an equivalent number of Palestinian
prisoners as per the agreement.
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