Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured this on Tuesday that Israel will not release “thousands of Palestinian terrorists” in exchange for the delivery of hostages, as part of a proposed truce agreement in the Gaza Strip to which the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas is expected to respond in the coming days.
“We will not withdraw the Israel Defense Forces from the Gaza Strip and we will not free thousands of terrorists,” Netanyahu promised young students at the Bnei David military academy in the occupied West Bank settlement of Eli on Tuesday.
“None of this will happen. What will happen?” Absolute victory!”The president reiterated that since the beginning of the war offensive and despite growing pressure both internationally and from the families of the 136 abductees, he has always been reluctant to end the war in Gaza until it is possible to “eliminate Hamas” .
With American mediation Qatar and Egypt, Israel and Hamas are negotiating another proposal for a possible truce and prisoner exchange agreement, delivered yesterday to the Islamist group, which assured that “it will study it” but that He will not give in to her demands.
“What will happen? Absolute victory!” Netanyahu said. Photo: APFor Hamas the priority is above all “to stop the brutal aggression in Gaza and the complete withdrawal of the occupation forces of the Strip,” the head of the group’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said in a statement.
Haniyeh, who has lived in Qatar for years, also said that any agreement with Israel must guarantee the return of the nearly 2 million inhabitants of Gaza to their homes displaced due to the violence, most of them in the Rafah area, on the border with Egypt.
For his part, Ziad Nakhaleh, secretary of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an organization that also operates in Gaza and the West Bank, on Tuesday showed his support for Hamas and assured that he will not even negotiate other types of conditions.
“We will not establish any agreement without ensuring a comprehensive ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation forces, the guarantee of reconstruction (of Gaza) and a clear political solution that guarantees the rights of the Palestinian people,” Nakhaleh explained in a statement.
Source: Clarin
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