Hamas responds to Trump’s proposal, which the US president says is aimed at ending the Israeli regime’s ongoing war of genocide on Gaza.

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has responded to a 20-point proposal forwarded by Donald Trump, which the US president says is aimed at ending the Israeli regime’s ongoing war of genocide on the coastal sliver.

The movement provided its response through a statement on Friday after “extensively studying” the plan and conducting “in-depth consolations” with various Palestinian factions as well as “out of keenness to stop the aggression and the war of extermination.”

The group also said it had come up with the response “based on national responsibility and out of concern for the constants, rights, and supreme interests of our people.”

As part of the response and for the sake of enabling cessation of the warfare and realization of withdrawal of the invading Israeli forces, Hamas said it agrees to “release all Israeli captives, living and deceased.”

The group, however, asserted that the release would take place “provided that the field conditions for the exchange process are secured.”

Accordingly, the group said, it is ready to enter negotiation with mediators towards realizing the purpose.

Elsewhere in the statement, Hamas said it approves of “handing over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents (technocrats) based on Palestinian national consensus and based on Arab and Islamic support.”

Nevertheless, the group stated that the rest of the provisions mentioned in Trump’s proposal had to be agreed upon “through a comprehensive Palestinian national framework of which Hamas will be a part and to which it will contribute with full responsibility.”

It attributed the latter part of its decision to those provisions being linked to a comprehensive national position and based on relevant international laws and resolutions.

Earlier, the movement had expressed skepticism concerning the proposal, asserting that due to the sensitive nature of the elements involved, its response would be a distinctively collective one integrating the opinions of various Palestinian factions.

It had identified the matters at stake as the future of the Palestinian issue, Palestinians’ rights, core principles, and political identity, saying it would provide a conclusive answer following additional consultations with Palestinian groups.

(This item will be updated).

  • surjomukhi@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    The opposition to call it a war stems from the equivalence it gives. The Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is not the same as the resistance to it. Calling it a war is quickly followed by a liberal saying “both side is committing war crimes”.

    War is an armed conflict[a] between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups

    This is what war is defined as in Wikipedia, and I’d be honest, this is not what looks like happening in Gaza to me.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      23·
      3 days ago

      If you don’t see the command structures in the Gaza Resistance your aren’t looking or don’t understand what you are looking at.

      1. They are still doing ambushes and even doing raids on idf camps.
      2. They are still releasing edited videos of their actions despite there being a internet blackout in Gaza. This is from friday.
      3. The resistance are still recruiting and training new fighters
      4. They are still using the correct weapons for the job meaning they are not having weapon supply issues.
      5. They are still manufacturing new weapons. They came up with a new smaller hand delivery device because the big ones were too hard to get into open tank hatches. It has been featured in videos from multiple brigades from different parts of the strip meaning they are not just innovating and developing new tools they are sharing those tools and methods between different resistance cells.

      The thing that pisses me off about the whole “its not a war its a genocide” thing is not just that it isn’t true or even that it is just a pointless “AKTCHALY” debate pervert reddit parrot talking point that doesn’t elevate anyone’s understanding.

      What gets me the most angry is that it strips the Palestinians of their agency and makes them victims. The people who want to cast them as victims are doing it because it justifies their own inaction. In their mind the Palestinians are victims who cant do anything and western leftists are just victims of capitalism so they don’t have any responsibility either.