The negotiations in Qatar deviated from the proposal offered by U.S. President Joe Biden, a Hamas consultant mentioned Friday, because the group supported the U.N. request for a humanitarian pause to vaccinate Palestinian youngsters for polio.
The Hamas management has obtained updates on the two-day negotiations in Doha, senior official Mahmoud Mardawi advised the German Press Agency (DPA), arguing that the proposals differ from these made by Biden earlier this summer time.
The Palestinian resistance group, which didn’t attend the talks immediately, beforehand mentioned it could not settle for any deviations from Biden’s peace plan.
Hamas believes the negotiations ought to concentrate on ending the warfare, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the coastal territory, the return of displaced folks to their properties, reconstruction and the tip of the Israeli blockade.
There has been no official assertion from Israel on the newest spherical of talks.
An extra spherical of negotiations is deliberate in Cairo subsequent week, in keeping with mediators Egypt, Qatar and the United States.
Israel’s “new” circumstances embrace maintaining troops inside Gaza alongside its border with Egypt, an knowledgeable supply mentioned, whereas Hamas calls for “a complete cease-fire, a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a normal return of the displaced and a (prisoner) exchange deal” with out restrictions.
Israel additionally demanded veto rights on the prisoners to be exchanged, and the power to deport some prisoners reasonably than ship them again to Gaza, the supply mentioned.
Separately, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke to his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin Friday, stressing the significance of negotiating the discharge of the hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7.
Gallant “highlighted that the achievement of this agreement is both a moral imperative and a strategic, security priority,” his workplace mentioned in an announcement.
Meanwhile, Hamas additionally mentioned it supported the United Nations’ request for a seven-day humanitarian pause to vaccinate Palestinian youngsters in opposition to polio, a member of the group’s political bureau, Izzat al-Rishq, mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
Source: www.dailysabah.com