A senior Palestinian source with knowledge of Hamas’ policies siad Wednesday Hamas is ready to show “flexibility” about the future governance of Gaza, as long as the decision to rule the war-battered enclave is agreed upon by other Palestinian factions and is not imposed by either the United States or ‘Israel’.
The source said that Hamas is open to a nationally agreed formula for the good of its people, indicating that it has the political flexibility to accept several formulas… for the future of Gaza with assertions that any settlement being agreed upon nationally should not be imposed by America or ‘Israel’. They can not bargain with a weak Palestinian state,” the source added.
“Hamas is confident that it is deeply rooted in the region and nobody can bypass it,” the source told MEE.
However, Hamas official said Monday that the movement will not have to sit down for negotiations while the Israeli army continues to kill civilians.
“Continuing negotiations while massacres [still happen] provide cover for the massacres and even led to the killing of an Egyptian soldier. This will not happen again,” the source added.
To resume negotiations, Hamas source said this would happen if ‘Israel’ retreated its policy of committing massacres in Rafah. The Rafah crossing must return to its previous administration, he added, referring to the pre-7 October arrangement.
Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardawi to Al-Ghad: The movement will not accept any proposal that does not include a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas official Mahmoud Mardwai said the movement will not accept any Israeli proposal unless it includes the opening of the Rafah crossing, a permanent ceasefire, and a comprehensive withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, confirming that the Israeli occupation uses negotiations to mislead and cover up the massacres it commits in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas told international mediators on Tuesday that it was ending its participation in ceasefire talks following Sunday’s “massacre” in Rafah by the Israeli army, which resulted in the killing of at least 45 people and wounding more dozens, most of them women and children.
The Israeli attack struck a tent camp housing 100,000 displaced Palestinians in the Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood of western Rafah.
The crime is part of an 8-month policy of killing civilians and chasing after their movement, which has taken ‘Israel’ to the International Criminal Court several times.
On Monday, Reporters without borders has taken ‘Israel’, for the third time since Israel’s unprecedented onslaught on Gaza, to the International Criminal Court after indications approved deliberate targeting of Journalists in Gaza.
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