Salah al-Din Road in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock
Hamas laid out its proposal on Tuesday in response to the latest cease-fire deal brokered by US, Qatari and Egyptian negotiators. It calls for the Israeli military to ultimately leave Gaza altogether.
In the militant group’s proposal, both sides would observe a three-stage cease-fire over 135 days(4.5 months truce) each stage lasting 45 days, during which hostages and Palestinian prisoners in Israel would be released including bodies and remains of dead hostages. Israeli officials believe that Hamas has the bodies of at least 32 hostages who died either during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack or while in captivity.
Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, arriving in Israel on Tuesday. Pool photo
However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has publicly rejected a Hamas counterproposal for a cease-fire. Mr Natanyahu said on Wednesday that an Israeli victory in Gaza was “within reach.”
“There is no solution besides total victory,” Mr. Netanyahu said during a news conference in Jerusalem, shortly after meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, to discuss peace proposals. “If Hamas survives in Gaza, it’s only a matter of time until the next massacre,” he added.
With no specification on any details of the Hamas proposal, Mr Netanyahu said “surrender to the ludicrous demands of Hamas” would neither free the over 100 hostages still in Gaza nor restore Israel’s security.
Mr Natanyahu's comments stood as discouragement and a loss of hope in what the mediators have said to be the reflection of potential progress offered by Hamas on Tuesday.
The report said that Mr. Netanyahu's leadership had furthermore authorized the military to advance south toward Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. The zone where over one million Palestinians are believed to have taken shelter from the fighting. Many Gazans who have been displaced several times have joined the swelling tent camps of the displaced in the Rafah area.
以色列總理駁回了哈馬斯的停火還價提議
哈馬斯週二提出了其提議，以回應美國、卡達和埃及談判代表促成的最新停火協議。 它呼籲以色列軍隊最終完全撤離加薩。
在該武裝組織的提議中，雙方將遵守為期135天的三階段停火（休戰4.5個月），每個階段持續45天，在此期間釋放人質和在以色列的巴勒斯坦囚犯，包括死亡人質的屍體和遺骸。 以色列官員認為，哈馬斯擁有至少 32 名人質的屍體，他們要么在 10 月 7 日的恐怖襲擊中死亡，要么在被關押期間死亡。
然而，以色列總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡公開拒絕了哈馬斯的停火反建議。 納塔尼亞胡週三表示，以色列在加薩的勝利「觸手可及」。
在與美國國務卿安東尼·布林肯會面討論和平建議後不久，內塔尼亞胡在耶路撒冷舉行的新聞發布會上表示： “除了全面勝利，沒有其他解決方案。” 「如果哈馬斯在加薩倖存，下一次屠殺只是時間問題，」他補充道。
內塔尼亞胡沒有具體說明哈馬斯提議的任何細節，他表示「向哈馬斯的荒謬要求投降」既不會釋放仍在加薩的 100 多名人質，也不會恢復以色列的安全。
納塔尼亞胡先生的言論令人沮喪，對調解員所說的哈馬斯週二提供的潛在進展的反映感到失望。
報道稱，內塔尼亞胡領導階層也授權軍隊向南挺進加薩走廊最南端的城市拉法。 據信該地區有超過一百萬巴勒斯坦人躲避戰鬥。 許多多次流離失所的加薩人加入了拉法地區不斷擴大的流離失所者帳篷營地。
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