[News] “The Deception Game”: Trump Is Scrambling to Make a Gaza Deal on Israel’s Terms
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Hamas accused the U.S. and Israel of waging a campaign of disinformation
about ceasefire progress and insists it will not retreat from its “red
lines."
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Hamas accused the U.S. and Israel of waging a campaign of
disinformation about ceasefire progress and insists it will not
retreat from its “red lines."
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President Donald Trump has portrayed a new Gaza ceasefire deal as a near
certainty, claiming it could be signed as early as this week. “We gotta
get that solved. Gaza is—it’s a tragedy and [Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu] wants to get it solved, and I want to get it solved,
and I think the other side wants to get it solved,” Trump said Tuesday.
“A lot of hate, long-term hate, but we think we’re going to have it
solved pretty soon—hopefully with a real solution, a solution that’s
going to be holding up.”
The indirect proximity talks underway in Doha may lead to an agreement
on a ceasefire framework, particularly if Trump decides he wants a deal
and is willing to force Netanyahu to make concessions. But a Hamas
official with direct knowledge of the negotiations underway in Qatar
told Drop Site Wednesday morning that, since Sunday, the U.S. and Israel
have engaged in a “deception game,” one aimed at strong-arming Hamas
into signing an agreement that would not end the genocide; permit
Israeli forces to remain deeply entrenched in the enclave; and keep
Israel in effective control of whether—and under what conditions— food,
medicine, and other life essentials are allowed to enter Gaza.
The Hamas official said the Islamic resistance movement will not
compromise on a core set of “red lines” it has established for any
ceasefire: that there will be a full withdrawal of Israeli occupation
forces and that the UN, not Israel, will control humanitarian aid going
into Gaza—administered on the terms of the original January 19 ceasefire
deal that Israel unilaterally abandoned. Hamas also wants stronger
language stating that Trump would guarantee that Israel maintains a
ceasefire after an initial 60-day truce and exchange of captives to
negotiate an end to the war.
"The only party capable of imposing a ceasefire on the occupation is the
United States of America,” said Taher Al Nunu, a senior Hamas official,
in a statement to Al Jazeera on Wednesday. He added that, while Hamas
appreciates the work of the regional mediators from Egypt and Qatar to
bridge gaps, the U.S. “itself is the one that can force Israel to stop
this war and this aggression. Therefore, if the political will and real
guarantees from the United States are available, we are convinced that
we will reach an end to this war."
Hamas’s overarching aim is to return to the basic terms—on aid
distribution, Israeli troop positions, and negotiations on a permanent
ceasefire—enshrined in the January agreement signed by Israel and
endorsed by Trump and former President Joe Biden.
On Tuesday, Trump Special Envoy Steve Witkoff claimed that the talks in
Doha were yielding progress. “We’re in proximity talks now, and we had
four issues, and now we’re down to one after two days of proximity
talks,” Witkoff claimed. “So, we are hopeful that by the end of this
week, we will have an agreement that will bring us into a 60-day ceasefire.”
The Hamas official told Drop Site that Witkoff was lying in his claim
that there was only one outstanding issue to be resolved. “We insist on
our demands,” the official said, adding that the proposed terms laid out
in Hamas’s July 4 document remained unchanged, despite media reports to
the contrary.
His comments were echoed in a public statement released by senior Hamas
official Izzat al-Rishq on Tuesday night. “Gaza will not surrender—and
it is the resistance that will impose the terms, just as it has imposed
the equations,” he said.
The Hamas official noted that a Qatari delegation visited the White
House Tuesday for talks with senior U.S. officials about a potential
Gaza deal. He suggested that Witkoff’s comments about successfully
resolving some issues may reflect terms the U.S. and Israel have told
mediators they’ve agreed to—not compromises reached between Israel and
Hamas. He dismissed media reports, purporting to reveal Hamas’s
concessions on its “red line” issues during the proximity talks, as
“totally false.” Much of the negotiating, he said, appeared to be
between Israel and the U.S.
In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas denounced what it called Israel’s
“obstinacy” in the ceasefire negotiations.
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Drop Site has obtained, and is publishing in-full, the text of Hamas’s
amended proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. The July 4 document outlines the
terms Hamas says it would agree to immediately. Full English translation
is at the bottom of this story.
*Status of the Negotiations*
During the indirect proximity talks that began in Doha on Sunday,
Israeli negotiators offered no significant concessions, despite
pervasive reports in the Israeli press that the U.S. was applying
pressure on Netanyahu, according to the Hamas official. Instead, he
said, Israel amplified its threats to expand its military presence in
southern Gaza, according to the Hamas official. “All of this is to
prepare for their plans of forceful—or ‘voluntary’—emigration of the
Palestinians,” he said.
Israel’s defense minister confirmed as much on Monday, saying that
Israeli forces intend to build what he cynically called a “humanitarian
city” on the rubble of what was once the city of Rafah, near the
Egyptian border. As part of any deal, Israel said it wanted to keep its
forces positioned in a 7.5 mile-wide stretch of southern Gaza between
the Philadelphi corridor and the so-called Morag Axis, which Israel
created in April, separating Rafah from Khan Younis. It is near this
area that hundreds of Palestinians have been killed since late May as
they sought meager food rations from the U.S.-Israeli-created Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Israel Katz, the defense minister, claimed that an initial 600,000
Palestinians would be confined to the camp and would not be allowed to
leave. They would be subjected to “security screenings,” ostensibly to
ensure they have no connection to Hamas, and then housed in tents.
"The plan is essentially to move all civilian Gazans south to a large
tent city in Rafah, where they will have hospitals and plenty of food,"
an Israeli source told Haaretz
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"How did the prime minister put it? Give them Ben & Jerry's, for all I
care.” The paper said Netanyahu hopes to convince Saudi Arabia or the
United Arab Emirates to eventually take over the administration of the
camp. It cited an Israeli official as saying that Netanyahu believes
that "if we do it, it will incentivize the Emiratis or the Saudis to
take over it and say, 'We're freeing you from Israeli control.' They
will have legitimacy to intervene, without being considered
collaborators with Israel, since they won't want to take part in a plan
that empties the northern part of the Gaza Strip.”
The ultimate aim of the camp, Katz said, was to force the population to
“voluntarily emigrate” to other countries—a goal that, he pledged, “will
happen.” Katz said that construction in the zone could begin during a
potential 60-day truce.
“We’re working with the United States very closely about finding
countries that will seek to realize what they always say, that they
wanted to give the Palestinians a better future,” Netanyahu claimed
after meeting with Trump on Tuesday evening, his second face-to-face
with Trump since he landed in Washington D.C. on Monday. “I think we’re
getting close to finding several countries.”
But, on Wednesday, Axios reported that the Trump administration now
understands that Hamas will not agree to a deal that includes large
deployments of Israeli troops remaining inside Gaza. During the White
House meetings on Tuesday between Qatari officials, Witkoff, and Ron
Dermer, Netanyahu’s point man on the Gaza negotiations, the Qatari
official and Witkoff “made it clear to Dermer that the map proposed by
Israel—which involves a far more narrow redeployment than the one the
IDF carried out during the previous ceasefire—is a non-starter,”
according to Axios. A Qatari official said the issue could collapse the
talks. Witkoff, according to Axios, told Dermer that Trump opposed “an
ongoing Israeli occupation of large parts of the Gaza Strip.” Israel
then suggested revised maps to the mediators, the report said.
“This is media talk. We need to see the maps on the ground,” said Dr.
Mohammed Al-Hindi, the lead negotiator for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in
an interview with Al Araby on Wednesday evening. He called Israel’s
planned camp in Rafah, in southern Gaza, the “Morag ghetto.”
The Hamas official told Drop Site that, late Wednesday, Israel submitted
a new proposal to mediators demanding the creation of an
Israeli-controlled buffer zone encircling Gaza that would extend two
kilometers into Gaza in the north and east of the enclave, as well as a
four kilometer (2.5 mile) zone cutting through southern Gaza. This would
mean that the Rafah crossing along the Egyptian border—Gaza’s only
gateway to the outside world before Israel seized it— would be under
full Israeli control. The Hamas official described it as creating a
“Rafah ghetto.”
Israel’s Channel 14 reported details consistent with what the Hamas
official said, saying that Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to
draw a line “that can be lived with.” The goal would be “to create
another southern closure besides Philadelphi, and thus perhaps withdraw
from the Morag Axis and move toward a [ceasefire] deal.”
In the modified ceasefire draft Hamas submitted July 4, the terms called
for Israeli troops to be withdrawn to their positions from March 2, the
day Israel abandoned the original ceasefire deal. This would mean the
forces near Rafah would need to begin withdrawing in the second week of
a new ceasefire deal, rather than establishing a militarized
prison-style camp in southern Gaza. Hamas also proposed that the Rafah
border crossing with Egypt be re-opened “in both directions for
travelers, the sick, the wounded, and trade.”
Hamas has insisted that it wants the UN and the Red Crescent to
administer the distribution of aid to Gaza under the terms of the
January ceasefire deal. The Trump-backed draft of the latest ceasefire
framework, said that while the UN would participate in distribution, it
would not be in charge. Israel has demanded that Israeli forces retain
this authority. The Hamas official said that Israel’s system is one of
“death traps” for starving Palestinians.
In an interview broadcast on FOX News on Wednesday, Netanyahu said the
UN would likely be “among” the entities involved with aid distribution.
“But we have our own distribution system that has been established to
prevent Hamas from stealing the food that is supposed to go to the
population,” Netanyahu said. “Obviously we don’t want to give up the
thing that we began with, which is distribution that goes directly to
the people…. I think we’ll end up for the 60 days with both.” There is
no evidence that Hamas has seized any significant quantities of aid, a
point that a European Commission spokesperson reiterated this week.
Al-Hindi said the Palestinian negotiators oppose any involvement of the
GHF aid scheme in a potential ceasefire deal, saying it would be used—
alongside the Morag camp—as part of the plan to ethnically cleanse
Palestinians out of Gaza.
“This institution that is cloaked in humanitarianism is a new crime of
killing people. We have seen over the past months that hundreds of
Palestinians have been targeted, including women, children, and
defenseless civilians who have no ties—except wanting to feed their
children,” he said. “Now they want to establish it in an agreement? That
is, we give it legitimacy by establishing it in this agreement. The
areas under Israeli control [where GHF operates] are merely buffer zones
with no residents. The United Nations intervenes to provide relief to
the Palestinian people in areas with residents.”
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Wednesday, “If a temporary
ceasefire is reached, we are willing to negotiate a permanent one.” This
could be interpreted as a new development, one which Hamas has demanded
that Trump guarantee, but Saar also reiterated the maximalist position
Israel has taken from the beginning, claiming the war “can end tomorrow
if Hamas releases [all Israeli captives] and lays down its weapons.” He
added: “Hamas is not only responsible for initiating this war, but also
for its continuation. Pressure must be applied to Hamas.”
Throughout various ceasefire negotiations during the past 22 months of
Israel’s war, the U.S. and Israel have worked in tandem to submit
ultimatums to Hamas, and when Palestinian negotiators seek amendments,
the U.S. and Israel claim that Hamas has rejected peace as the Israeli
military assault on Gaza intensifies, facilitated by U.S. arms and
political support. When it has signed such agreements, Israel repeatedly
violates the terms and continues killing Palestinians. Israeli officials
have claimed that Trump offered Netanyahu another “side letter”
authorizing a resumption of the war as part of any deal signed with Hamas.
During the FOX News interview Wednesday, Netanyahu was asked if Israel
would resume the war should Hamas violate a ceasefire. “That’s obvious.
We have the right of self-defense at any time,” he replied. Netanyahu
made no mention of the fact that Israel repeatedly violated the January
Gaza ceasefire deal and then abandoned it before resuming its military
assault. “I think on these matters, which I always prefer to negotiate
not in front of a camera, I think there’s a good chance we’ll have this
ceasefire and that will get us closer to the goal I set from the
beginning: Let’s get [the Israeli captives] all back without capitulation.”
Netanyahu referred to Hamas as “monsters,” and said, “They’re actually
as bad—and in some cases—worse than the Nazis.” He promised that, after
a ceasefire, “They’re not going to be there. So we get our hostages out.
We’re going to take out Hamas, and we’re going to make sure that Gaza no
longer poses the threat to Israel or to anyone else.”
On July 4, Hamas submitted a handful of proposed modifications to the
framework Trump called the “final proposal.” In doing so, Hamas made a
series of concessions, including a willingness to release eight living
Israeli captives on the first day of a temporary truce. On day 50 of a
deal, Hamas would release another two, bringing the number of living
captives it holds down to ten. Hamas has said it is aware that these
captives are the strongest bargaining assets that it holds.
Asked whether he believed a deal could be reached this week, Al-Hindi
said, “I can't say it's out of the question. We're interested in
reaching an agreement and are making a great effort, and the mediators
are interested in reaching an agreement. If Israel and Netanyahu want to
reach an agreement, [we can reach one] in five minutes.” He charged that
Netanyahu “wants a partial deal to manage the continuation of the war
and the continuation of the aggression” and to maintain a veto over
continuing the talks beyond 60 days. “Trump guarantees the continuation
of the ceasefire if the negotiations continue. But if they don't
continue? If Israel stops them? There is no guarantee.”
Even if an agreement was reached on a framework for a ceasefire, there
remain myriad technical issues to resolve, any one of which could stall
or destroy a potential deal.
“What is being talked about is a general framework paper and detailed
talks have not yet begun… We seek to bridge the gap for the negotiating
framework and to find a suitable environment,” said Qatar’s Foreign
Ministry spokesperson Dr. Majed Al Ansari Tuesday. “We are not yet
talking about a final agreement.”
Multiple news outlets have reported that Trump’s unofficial envoy,
Palestinian-American academic Bishara Bahbah, passed another message to
Hamas assuring the movement that Trump was committed to sustaining the
ceasefire beyond an initial two-month truce in order to achieve a
permanent resolution. In the past, Hamas has said such informal pledges
were insufficient.
“No one can guarantee Israel’s actions. These are merely symbolic
guarantees,” said Al-Hindi, the Islamic Jihad negotiator who is part of
the Hamas-led Palestinian delegation. “President Trump wants to come out
and talk about the agreement. He and [the other U.S. officials] don't
care about all the details we're talking about, while we're suffering on
the ground and the killing we're seeing. No one cares about this. They
care about the image.”
The Times of Israel reported
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that, while the Trump administration does not want Israel to resume the
war after a 60-day truce, “the U.S. does not want that possibility ruled
out in the text of the ceasefire proposal in order to hold Hamas’s feet
to the fire and make sure that they negotiate in good faith.”
On Tuesday, Netanyahu declared, “We are determined to achieve all our
objectives: the release of all our hostages—both the living and the
fallen, the elimination of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities,
and thereby ensuring that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.”
Al-Rishq, the senior Hamas official, said Netanyahu’s statement
“reflects the illusion of psychological defeat,” adding: “After the
enemy's leaders acknowledged their abject failure to recover their
captives through military operations, it became clear that the only way
to release them was through a serious deal with the resistance.”
Al-Hindi acknowledged the pressure coming from Palestinians inside Gaza
to reach a deal. “Our people know the suffering, and right now all they
want is to hear that an agreement has been reached,” he said. “God
willing, we will come out with an agreement that will remove this
oppression, this killing, and this great pain from them.”
He added: “We want to protect them after the 60 days as well. The issue
is not just to stop the killing for a specific period. We want to
protect our people, and protecting our people is not dependent on an
agreement that Trump or someone else will sign. It is dependent on this
legendary steadfastness that the Palestinian people have achieved.”
/Below is the full text of Hamas’s amended proposal for a Gaza
ceasefire, which Drop Site translated into English:/
*4 July 2025*
*Framework for Negotiating an Agreement to a Permanent Ceasefire*
1. *Duration:*A 60-day ceasefire, during which there will be a temporary
cessation of military operations by both sides. President Trump
guarantees Israel's adherence to the ceasefire during the agreed-upon
period.
2. *Release of Hostages:*10 Israeli live hostages and 18 deceased
hostages from the "List of 58" to be released on days 1, 7, 30, 50, and
60, as follows:
*
8 live hostages released on day 1
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5 deceased hostages released on day 7
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5 deceased hostages released on day 30
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2 live hostages released on day 50
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8 deceased hostages released on day 60
3. *Humanitarian Assistance:*Aid will be sent into Gaza immediately once
Hamas agrees to the ceasefire agreement. This will be in accordance with
the January 19, 2025, agreement regarding humanitarian aid, including
the rehabilitation of infrastructure (water, electricity, and
sanitation), the rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, the entry of
equipment necessary for removing rubble and opening roads, and the
opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions for travelers, the
sick, the wounded, and trade.
Aid will be distributed to the population of the Gaza Strip through the
United Nations, its agencies, and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
4. *Israeli Military Activities:*All offensive Israeli military
activities in Gaza will cease upon this agreement entering into force.
During the ceasefire period, there will be a cessation of aerial
movement (military and surveillance) in the Gaza Strip for 10 hours
daily, or 12 hours daily during days involving hostage and prisoner
exchanges.
5. *Israeli Military Redeployment:*
1.
On Day 1, after the release of the Israeli hostages (8 living),
redeployment will take place in the northern part of the Gaza Strip
and in Netzarim corridor to the positions where Israeli forces were
deployed according to the maps of the January 19, 2025 agreement,
with minor adjustments to be agreed upon.
2.
On Day 7, after the release of the Israeli hostages (5 deceased),
redeployment in the southern part of the Gaza Strip to the positions
where Israeli forces were deployed according to the maps of the
January 19, 2024 agreement, with minor adjustments to be agreed upon.
6. *Negotiations:*On Day 1, negotiations will begin under the auspices
of the mediators-guarantors on the necessary arrangements for a
permanent ceasefire, including:
1.
Keys and terms for the exchange of all remaining Israeli hostages
for an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
2.
Issues relating to redeployments and withdrawals of Israeli forces
and long-term security arrangements within the Gaza Strip.
3.
Arrangements relating to the "day after" in the Gaza Strip, which
would be raised by either side.
4.
The announcement of a permanent ceasefire.
7. *Presidential Support:*The President is serious about the parties'
adherence to the ceasefire agreement and insists that negotiations
during the temporary ceasefire, if successfully concluded by an
agreement between the parties, would lead to a permanent resolution of
the conflict.
8. *Release of Palestinian Prisoners:*In exchange for the release of the
living and dead Israeli hostages in accordance with Article 2 above,
Israel will release an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners. The
release will take place in parallel with the release of the hostages in
accordance with Article 2 above, according to an agreed-upon mechanism,
and without public displays or ceremonies.
9. *Status of Hostages and Prisoners:*On Day 10, Hamas will provide
complete information (proof of life and medical status report/proof of
death) regarding each of the remaining hostages. In return, Israel will
provide complete information regarding the Palestinian prisoners
detained from the Gaza Strip since October 7 and the number of deceased
Gazans held in Israel. Hamas commits to ensuring the health, welfare,
and security of the hostages during the ceasefire.
10. *Remaining Hostages Released Upon Agreement:*Negotiations on the
necessary arrangements for a permanent ceasefire must be concluded
within 60 days. Upon agreement, the remaining Israeli hostages (living
and deceased) from the "List of 58" submitted by Israel will be
released. If negotiations on the necessary arrangements for a permanent
ceasefire are not completed within the aforementioned period, the
temporary ceasefire may be extended in accordance with Article 11 below.
11. *Guarantors:*The Mediators—Guarantors (the United States, Egypt, and
Qatar) will ensure that the ceasefire will continue for 60 days and that
serious discussions will be held on the necessary arrangements for a
permanent ceasefire. The Mediators will ensure that serious negotiations
continue for an additional period until the parties reach an agreement,
with the continuation of the agreed-upon measures in this framework.
12. *Envoy Presides:*Special Envoy Ambassador Steve Witkoff will travel
to the region to finalize the agreement. Steve Witkoff will preside over
the negotiations.
13. *President Trump:*President Trump will personally announce the
ceasefire agreement. The United States and President Trump are committed
to working to ensure that good faith negotiations continue until a final
agreement is reached.
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