Hamas: Negotiations focus on ending war, withdrawal, and rebuilding Gaza

Hamas said on Monday that the negotiations with Egyptian and Qatari mediators and US President Donald Trump's envoy focused on ending the genocidal war, the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the reconstruction process.

The movement's spokesman, Abdul Latif Al-Qanou, added in a statement: "We dealt flexibly with the efforts of the mediators and Trump's envoy, and we await the results of the expected negotiations and the occupation's obligation to agree and move to the second stage."

He continued: "The negotiations that took place with Egyptian and Qatari mediators and Trump's envoy are based on ending the war, withdrawal and reconstruction."

He explained that his movement was fully committed to the "first phase of the agreement," noting that its priorities at the present time are focused on sheltering and providing relief to the Palestinians of Gaza and ensuring a permanent ceasefire.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump's envoy for Israeli prisoners, Adam Boehler, described the talks with Hamas as "very useful" in a statement to CNN.

"I think there is hope, and you could see something like a long-term truce, where the hostages are released, Hamas gives up its weapons, and I think that's a very close reality," he said.

Tel Aviv estimates that there are 59 Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, 24 of whom are alive, while more than 9,500 Palestinians are languishing in its prisons, suffering from torture, starvation, and medical neglect, which has claimed the lives of many of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.

Boehler confirmed reports that Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer was upset about his talks with Hamas, saying: "I understand the panic and the concern, and I was not upset."

"We, the United States, are not agents of Israel, and we have specific interests in the game," he added.

Israel has turned Gaza into the world's largest prison, besieging it for the 18th year, and the war of extermination has forced about two million of its citizens, numbering about 2.4 million Palestinians, to flee in tragic conditions with a deliberate severe shortage of food, water and medicine.

In return, Hamas repeatedly affirmed its commitment to the agreement and demanded that Israel be bound by it. It called on the mediators to immediately begin negotiations for the second phase, and considered the decision to prevent aid “cheap blackmail, a war crime, and a blatant coup against the agreement.”

Netanyahu continues to defy international law, ignoring the International Criminal Court’s issuance on November 21 of arrest warrants against him and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.

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