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<source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"/><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":false,"imageSize":"full","height":970,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":8134165,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://www.dropsitenews.com/i/170811315?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg","isProcessing":false,"align":"center","offset":false}" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!spHx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2c33910-ce1e-4d0a-94df-31e4e0c9dc43_4528x3016.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high" class="sizing-fullscreen"/> Senior Hamas Official Basem Naim stands in entrance of a banner that depicts Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on February 8, 2025 (Photograph by Ozan KOSE / AFP) Throughout the previous three weeks, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has overseen a big escalation of Israeli terror bombings all through Gaza and has introduced plans for a full scale invasion of Gaza Metropolis, the prospects for a deal to finish the genocide have been on life help. In late July, Israel withdrew its negotiating delegation from Qatar; the U.S. did the identical, denouncing Hamas and mischaracterizing its response to a draft ceasefire framework. Now, the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt—in addition to Turkey, behind the scenes—look like making an attempt to restart the method.

The Trump administration reportedly needs to shift from negotiating phased “piecemeal offers” to at least one that may end result within the releasing of all Israeli captives, dwelling and useless, upon signing an settlement.

On Tuesday, a number of information shops, citing Egyptian officers, reported that regional mediators have been working with the U.S. to “revive” a 60-day ceasefire framework touted by U.S. President Donald Trump in early July because the “ultimate” proposal for a deal. “The principle goal is to return to the preliminary proposal for establishing a 60-day ceasefire, with the discharge of some hostages and a few Palestinian detainees, and the stream of humanitarian and medical help to Gaza with out restrictions, with out situations,” mentioned Egyptian Overseas Minister Badr Abdel Atty throughout a press convention.

Netanyahu advised i24 Information he was not in favor of a partial ceasefire deal. “I believe it’s behind us. In any case, that would go away many hostages of their fingers, each dwelling and useless. And we wish all of them, each dwelling and useless. And that’s what we're going for,” he mentioned Tuesday. “I'm not telling you that I received’t be prepared to debate it. I wish to convey all of them again as a part of ending the warfare. However on our phrases of ending the warfare.” Nonetheless, Israel is reportedly contemplating sending a “high-level” negotiating crew again to Doha to renew talks with mediators.

All of those discussions and media leaks about purported new and competing proposals are, thus far, happening with out the direct participation of the one celebration that has the power to make such offers: Hamas. “We're able to go for a partial deal, and even for a complete deal. However it's concerning the seriousness—how dedicated Israel is, and likewise the Individuals—to succeed in a deal to finish this warfare, however to not use negotiations as an umbrella for different evil plans,” mentioned Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official and a former minister within the Palestinian authorities in Gaza.

“We have been trapped for 30 years on this so-called Oslo settlement to chase illusions,” Naim added, referring to the accords between the Palestine Liberation Group and Israel within the Nineties that theoretically would have led to the institution of a two-state association requiring Palestinians to formally give up enormous elements of historic Palestine. “Israel was utilizing this time to increase its settlements, to expel Palestinians out of their land, to undermine the existence of Palestinians, to take over Al Aqsa mosque. I believe we're not able to be a part of such a grimy recreation once more.”

Hamas introduced on Tuesday {that a} delegation led by its prime political chief Khalil Al-Hayya had arrived in Cairo to carry talks with Egyptian officers starting on Wednesday. “The go to was requested by the [Egyptian] intelligence companies and there's no particular agenda,” Naim mentioned. “However there will definitely be discussions concerning the negotiations, the catastrophic humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza, and the inner Palestinian state of affairs.”

In a wide-ranging interview with Drop Web site, Naim mentioned the state of ceasefire negotiations, Hamas’s place on relinquishing energy and its stance on disarmament of Palestinian resistance forces.

Naim mentioned his message to Trump is that he ought to reject Netanyahu’s agenda of extermination and transfer to safe a deal that ends the Gaza genocide and results in an impartial Palestinian state. “It's not about Hamas. Even when, sooner or later, God forbid, in the event that they attain a degree to crush Hamas, ultimately—a couple of months, a couple of years—they may have a brand new group of Palestinians who will rise up and battle again once more,” he mentioned. “Palestinians are combating now for 100 years to attain their respectable objectives of dwelling like several folks around the globe, free and dignified, in their very own impartial, self sovereign state, to additionally protect their proper of return to their homeland.”

For greater than twenty years, Hamas has, on a number of events, offered Israel proposals for a long-term truce, identified in Arabic as a hudna . Israel has rejected all of them. Most lately, in late April , Hamas formally proposed a multi-year deal throughout which its forces would agree to not interact in any assaults towards Israel. As a part of the settlement, Hamas would instantly launch all Israeli captives held in Gaza. The thought was that this association would enable the house and safety to barter a permanent political decision. Israel as soon as once more rebuked the supply and continued to broaden its navy assault on Gaza.

Trump’s particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, met final weekend with Qatar’s prime minister to debate the U.S. choice for an “all or nothing” deal to finish the warfare. On Monday, Trump referenced Netanyahu’s introduced plan to escalate the navy assault, together with “taking up” Gaza Metropolis, and making an attempt to retrieve Israeli captives by pressure, telling Axios it will be "very tough to get them," as a result of Hamas "are usually not going to let the hostages out within the present state of affairs."

Although the Trump administration has indicated that it needs an omnibus deal to launch all Israeli captives without delay, in current weeks it has not engaged with Hamas on any specifics. “This was our proposal three months in the past, and so they have rejected this,” Naim mentioned. “We have now no downside going again to this proposal so long as it's primarily based on a long run highway map, how you can finish this warfare and how you can finish this battle.”

Naim reiterated that Hamas is not going to launch any extra Israeli captives exterior of a deal that ensures a complete finish to the warfare and a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

“The U.S. has given the Israelis on a regular basis. They've given all of them the help, political help, diplomatic help, monetary help, navy help, intelligence help, and the Israelis have failed to perform the mission,” Naim mentioned. “They've didn't retrieve their troopers or the captured Israelis. They've didn't crush the resistance. They've didn't pressure the evacuation of Palestinians. They've didn't create an alternative choice to Hamas, as a result of it's clear it isn't about Hamas, it isn't about some prisoners. It's about individuals who wish to stay once more, free and dignified, like several folks around the globe. Subsequently, there is not any different to a simply and truthful negotiating desk.”

“I believe there's a nice political alternative at the moment,” Naim mentioned. “President Trump, if he is severe about his guarantees in the course of the marketing campaign, he has an opportunity to do it as soon as and eternally.”

The choice, Naim warned, is an escalation of violence, bloodshed, and instability that can lengthen far past Gaza. “By this unwavering help for Israel, they're destabilizing the area an increasing number of and they're going to by no means obtain their objectives of a brand new peaceable, affluent Center East,” Naim asserted. “The present management in Israel, which is to us a fascist and racist authorities, is changing this battle from a political battle about statehood, about borders, about folks, into a spiritual battle. And if this occurs and we attain an irreversible level—if it turns into a spiritual battle—there might be no likelihood for negotiations as a result of then you're negotiating about beliefs and I believe nobody will compromise.”

Each Israel and the U.S. have said that the demilitarization of the Palestinian resistance within the Gaza Strip could be required as a part of any deal. Hamas has persistently said that it is a purple line, a degree Naim emphasised. “Nobody can deny us the proper to withstand the occupation so long as now we have the occupation right here,” Naim mentioned. “We're prepared handy over our weapons if now we have a state and we're prepared to have interaction to combine our fighters in a Palestinian military. Why ought to Palestine be a disarmed state? Why? Who's the aggressor?”

“For 76 years, it was Israel,” he added. “Subsequently, if somebody has to ask for safety or for any preparations of safety, it is the Palestinians, it isn't the Israelis.”

On July 23, Hamas submitted a sequence of proposed amendments to the 60-day ceasefire framework drafted by the U.S., which Israel claimed to have agreed to. The motion had already provided a sequence of concessions embedded inside the doc and targeted on securing three particular phrases: that ample portions of meals, medication, and different life necessities be allowed into Gaza and that the UN retake the lead in its distribution; that Israeli navy forces withdraw totally from the enclave, although Hamas mentioned it will comply with a buffer zone encircling the Gaza Strip; and that, in change for releasing ten dwelling Israeli captives, Israel would free 200 Palestinians serving life sentences and a couple of,000 Palestinians snatched from Gaza since October 7.

Israel, Naim mentioned, has nonetheless not submitted an official response and as an alternative introduced it was withdrawing its negotiating crew from the talks in Doha, Qatar.

“We're nonetheless within the negotiation course of. We're ready for the reply from the Israelis. They did not, till now, reply. Quite the opposite, they've responded by saying new plans to escalate. And I believe that is very, very harmful,” mentioned Naim.

Trump advised Axios that his place was that Hamas couldn't stay in energy in Gaza, however mentioned this was for Israel to resolve. "I've one factor to say: Bear in mind October 7, keep in mind October 7,” Trump mentioned.

As Drop Web site has reported, Hamas has explicitly stated , in writing, that it will relinquish its governance of Gaza to an impartial technocratic committee of Palestinians with no celebration affiliation. Every time Hamas has proposed this time period as a part of a ceasefire deal, Israel and the U.S. have eliminated this side from deal proposals and falsely accused Hamas of insisting on remaining in energy.

Naim affirmed Hamas’s publicly said pledge that it will hand over energy in Gaza and help a course of that results in a so-called two state answer alongside the borders of the pre-1967 Arab-Israeli warfare with east Jerusalem because the capital of an impartial Palestine.

“The underside line is to finish the warfare, the whole withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, an agreed ceasefire, opening the borders, permitting help to enter the Gaza Strip, and the launching of a reconstruction operation,” Naim mentioned. “We have now mentioned from day one we're prepared handy over the federal government, or the ruling of the Gaza Strip, to an impartial technocratic Palestinian physique.” Naim mentioned this committee ought to work to reestablish coordination with Palestinian counterparts within the Ramallah-based administration within the occupied West Financial institution as a part of an effort to formally unify the 2 territories, whose governance has been splintered since Hamas received the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. Fatah, backed by the U.S. and different events, aimed to marginalize Hamas because the elected celebration, deny its capacity to type a authorities, and facilitated a civil warfare between Hamas and Fatah, with Hamas taking up the Gaza Strip and Fatah, underneath Abbas, changing into the governing authority within the West Financial institution.

On Tuesday, the Egyptian Overseas Minister confirmed that the proposal to manage Gaza entails a 15-member committee that may be supervised by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority for an preliminary interval of six months. “We're speaking about purely technocratic individuals who haven't any political affiliations,” mentioned Naim, including {that a} vary of Palestinian political teams submitted recommended candidates to Egypt for overview. “I hear that [the Egyptians] have additionally mentioned this with the Israelis and the Individuals, and there was a constructive stance.” He added that not one of the candidates have any connection to Hamas.

Naim contended that putting in a non-partisan committee to manage the Strip would open an area to deal with the inner Palestinian political challenges, together with the institution of a brand new democratically-elected authorities. “We consider that there's a likelihood to rebuild, or to reform, the inner Palestinian state of affairs by forming a unity authorities,” he mentioned, including that such an entity might arrange new elections.

“Abbas is acknowledged internationally as a Palestinian president, however the final election when he was chosen as president is now greater than 20 years in the past. Greater than 60% of Palestinians have not voted in any respect of their life,” Naim contended. “You can't construct a political answer primarily based on a management which doesn't characterize greater than 5 to 10 % of the Palestinians.”

“One of many core points which needs to be tackled and stuck is to offer the Palestinians an opportunity to decide on their management, to reform their political establishments and political system. And this may be carried out solely by giving the Palestinians an opportunity to go for impartial, free, democratic, clear, truthful elections,” Naim added. “We're able to be a part of, engaged in, or facilitating any severe political discussions to succeed in a political answer for this battle that ends with an impartial, sovereign Palestinian state.”