Hamás says that he is ready to negotiate “immediately” the US peace proposal
The Islamist group Hamas has assured on Sunday night that he is willing to negotiate an agreement that releases all hostages in exchange for the end of the war in the Gaza Strip after having received a proposal from the United States to reach a ceasefire.
“We have received, through the mediators, some ideas on the United States to achieve a fire cease agreement. Consequently, Hamas hosts any step that helps the efforts made to stop aggression against our people and affirms that he is willing to sit immediately to the negotiating table,” says the movement in a statement.
Hamas reiterates that he seeks a pact that ends war, in exchange for freeing all Israeli hostages that remain under their power, and that guarantees the withdrawal of Israel troops from the enclave. It also refers to the proposal drawn by the mediators (Egypt, Qatar and the United States) and that the Islamist group accepted on August 18, insisting that the Benjamín Netanyahu government has not yet responded. “The occupation has not responded to date and has continued with its massacres and ethnic cleaning. Consequently, the movement is in constant contact with the mediators to transform these ideas into a complete agreement that recognizes the demands of our people,” adds the statement of Hamas.
The negotiations have entered a strip and loosen of statements, in which Hamas insists on the August agreement and asks for Netanyahu’s response while the Israeli government remains that Gaza must be controlled by his army and that Hamas must be demilitarized.
Meanwhile, on Sunday it was known that the special envoy of the United States in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, sent Hamas a new proposal last week to reach an agreement on Gaza’s hostages and on a high fire through an activist for Israeli peace, according to an exclusive axios.
Moments later, the US president, Donald Trump, launched a “last warning” to Hamas to accept an agreement to free the hostages. “The Israelis have accepted my conditions. It is time for Hamas to accept them,” wrote the president in his social truth network.
In addition, an Egyptian security source assured the same Sunday as Egypt, Qatar and the United States prepare a new proposal that “will offer this week”, and that includes the release of all hostages in the hands of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamás, “the end of the war in Gaza and the formation of a government in the strip” to administer the Palestinian enclave in the postwar period.
The new contacts for a comprehensive agreement occur after last Friday 700 days of the beginning of the Israeli offensive in Gaza after the attacks of October 7, 2023, in the midst of growing protests in Israel to demand the release of the 48 hostages that remain in the hands of Hamas. In these 700 days of offensive, more than 64,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israel, according to data from the Gazati Ministry of Health, in the hands of Hamas. (EFE)
