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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Hamas: We've shown flexibility in talks, Netanyahu obstructing deal</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">July 12, 2024<br></div>
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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.</p><img src="cid:ii_lyiwfm9i0" alt="69da0853-6dfb-4bb0-806c-4810adcee12b.jpg" width="408" height="272"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
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. <em>(AFP)</em>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>Another Hamas official told <em>AFP</em> that the proposal for a non-partisan government was made "with the mediators."</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Netanyahu claimed on Thursday that control of the Philadelphi
corridor is part of efforts to prevent "weapons to be smuggled to Hamas
from Egypt."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--not-giving-clear-answers-regarding-hamas-demands--e">'Israel' not giving clear answers regarding Hamas demands: Exclusive</a></strong></p>
<h2>Israeli-Palestinian mediated talks led to no results: PIJ Deputy-Chief</h2>
<p>On Thursday, Mohammad al-Hindi, the deputy secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), told <strong>Al Mayadeen</strong> that the latest round of mediated negotiations between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-palestinian-mediated-talks-led-to-no-results--pij-de">did not lead to any results</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In his interview for <strong>Al Mayadeen</strong>, the Palestinian official reiterated the Resistance's negotiating team's positive and flexible performance during the talks.</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-wants--war-of-everyone-against-everyone---former-i">Netanyahu wants 'war of everyone against everyone': Former Israeli PM</a></strong></p></div></div></div>
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