Hamas: Netanyahu’s position on the proposed agreement confirms his desire to exterminate the Palestinians

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Leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Osama Hamdan, said that a delegation from the movement will arrive in Cairo tomorrow, Thursday, to follow up on the ongoing discussions regarding the proposed framework for stopping the aggression and exchanging prisoners, considering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk about continuing the war as “evidence of his intention to annihilate the Palestinian people.” and forcibly displacing him.”

Hamdan added in a press conference from Beirut this evening, Wednesday, February 7, 2024, that Netanyahu’s insistence on continuing his aggression “confirms that his real goal is to annihilate the Palestinians and displace them from their land.”

He said that Netanyahu "is above the political crisis and his military failure," and that the movement "will prevent him from achieving his goals through political and military means."

The delegation - which will be headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, a member of the movement's political bureau - will discuss in Cairo the movement's response to the proposed framework, and what will be the Israeli side's response to it.

Hamdan said that Hamas's response to the framework - which Al Jazeera obtained - is largely correct, adding that what was circulated in the media "represents the penultimate card of the movement's response."

The Hamas leader refused to discuss the details of the movement’s response to the framework issued by the Paris meeting, and said that the response is subject to discussion and development.

We will not allow Netanyahu to achieve his goals

He stressed that the movement will not accept any agreement that does not include ending the aggression completely, bringing in aid, sheltering the displaced, ensuring reconstruction, lifting the siege, and completing the prisoner exchange process.

He stressed that the movement dealt in a positive spirit with the proposed framework, despite the assurances of Netanyahu and his extremist government ministers that they refused to stop the war, and renewed their call for the displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to obstruct efforts to stop the fighting.

Hamdan called on the United States, which he said was still providing political and military cover for the aggression, to “stop these criminal practices, which are leading the region to ignite.”

He stressed that stopping the aggression, lifting the siege, and enabling the Palestinians to establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, are the only means of stability in the region.

He said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's announcement of its commitment to establishing an independent Palestinian state is a step on the right path, calling for this position to be a general behavior.

But Hamdan refused to trade the rights of the Palestinians for the normalization of relations with Israel, and said that all Arab countries must stop normalization, cut ties with the occupation and besiege it, so that the Palestinians can regain their rights and land.

He said that the relationship between the Palestinian resistance and Iran is not a secret, for the occupation army to try to prove it in a ridiculous way, stressing that “Tehran supports the resistance and its efforts, and this support is appreciated and a relationship built on mutual respect.”

Hamdan called on all resistance factions to continue the confrontation, and to remain vigilant against the treachery of the occupation, especially in “the last quarter of an hour of the aggression,” which he said the movement seeks to end in a manner worthy of the sacrifices made by the Palestinians.

He said that the false propaganda of the occupation carried out by some international media "will not succeed in distorting the resistance," calling for not to be drawn into this propaganda, "which has been proven to be false and far from reality," he said.

Hamdan appreciated Egypt's position of rejecting all the occupation's plans regarding the Philadelphia axis and its efforts to displace the population of the Gaza Strip. He stressed the movement's condemnation of all attempts at normalization, and the intention of the President of Argentina to move his country's embassy to occupied Jerusalem.

He warned against participating in attempts to liquidate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), and said that involvement in this process would be a partnership in trying to end the right of Palestinian refugees to return.

Source: Al Jazeera