24/2/2025–|Last update: 2/24/202504:55 PM (Mecca time)
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced today, Monday, that it will not deal with any new negotiations regarding the ceasefire and the exchange of prisoners in the Gaza Strip unless Israel implements the provisions of the first stage, while an Israeli source said that his country had informed the brokers ready to release the Palestinian prisoner’s batch Since last Saturday.
A spokesman for Hamas, Abd al -Latif al -Qanoua, said, “The failure of the human protocol and the postponement of the release of prisoners of the seventh batch is evidence of the occupation’s intentions to disrupt the agreement and its lack of seriousness in its continuation.”
In a statement of the movement, Al -Qanoua renewed Hamas’s assertion that the occupation’s failure to implement the entire provisions of the first stage does not serve the progress towards completing the release of the rest of the Israeli prisoners, and indicated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “impedes the implementation of the entire provisions of the agreement as he works for his personal agendas and does not care for a life The rest of the prisoners (Israelis in Gaza).
He affirmed the continuation of contacts with the brokers “about the repeated violations of the occupation and its procrastination in implementation,” noting that the movement is awaiting their response to this, as he pointed out that the international sponsorship of the agreement obliges the occupation to respect it and implement its stages without void as the resistance has committed.
Al -Qanouk called on the mediators and the international community to “more pressure on the occupation to save the ceasefire agreement and install it and prevent Netanyahu from disrupting its items.”
Israeli position
On the opposite side, Yedioth Ahronoth website quoted an Israeli source that the delay in the release of Palestinian prisoners is due to “humiliation decrees and national dignity,” as he put it, adding that the response to “the killing of the family of the captive Sherry Pipas will be great, but the focus is now on the return of the hostages of the hostages “.
The source added that it is possible to end the war, “If the demands of Israel to disarm Hamas and make the Gaza Strip make a demilitarized zone and remove Hamas leaders and Islamic jihad abroad, otherwise Israel will achieve the goals of the war by returning to the fierce fighting.”
Earlier, Israeli Energy Minister Elie Cohen announced 4 conditions for starting the second stages of the ceasefire agreement, and expressed his support for the annexation of the occupied West Bank in Israel, while Channel 12 reported that the resumption of fighting has become more likely than ever.
Cohen, who is a member of the mini -cabinet for political and security affairs (cabinet), told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority that these conditions are: the release of all kidnapped (Israeli prisoners), the removal of Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the removal of the Strip, and the security control over it.
Occupation
On January 19, a ceasefire agreement with 3 stages of 42 days has been valid, with negotiations on the next stage before completing the current stage.
Israel dismissed the implementation of the first phase of the agreement, according to Hamas, which it said counted several Israeli violations of the agreement represented by delaying the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting the Palestinians in the sector by bombing and shooting them, disabilities of entering the shelter requirements, and delaying the entry of health sector needs.
According to Hamas, Israel continues to delay the release of the seventh batch of Palestinian prisoners, who were to be released on Saturday, in exchange for Hamas’s release of 6 Israeli prisoners on the same day, and 4 bodies on Thursday.
On Sunday, the Netanyahu office said in a statement that the decision to postpone the release of the Palestinian prisoners will continue until the next batch is released, without what he described as “insulting ceremonies.” Hamas accuses Israel of procrastinating the start of negotiating the second stage, which was supposed to start on February 3.
Trump envoy
Meanwhile, Steve Witkev, US President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, said he would visit the region this week to extend the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
“We will go to the region this week – perhaps Wednesday – to negotiate this. We hope that we will have the right time to start and end the second stage and release more hostages.”
The first phase of the agreement consisting of 3 stages is approaching, and the agreement that entered into force on January 19, despite the exchange of accusations between the two sides of violations.
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