The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has responded to a 20-point proposal forwarded by Donald Trump, which the US president says is aimed at ending the Israeli regime’s ongoing war of genocide on the coastal sliver.
The movement provided its response through a statement on Friday after “extensively studying” the plan and conducting “in-depth consolations” with various Palestinian factions as well as “out of keenness to stop the aggression and the war of extermination.”
The group also said it had come up with the response “based on national responsibility and out of concern for the constants, rights, and supreme interests of our people.”
As part of the response and for the sake of enabling cessation of the warfare and realization of withdrawal of the invading Israeli forces, Hamas said it agrees to “release all Israeli captives, living and deceased.”
The group, however, asserted that the release would take place “provided that the field conditions for the exchange process are secured.”
Accordingly, the group said, it is ready to enter negotiation with mediators towards realizing the purpose.
Elsewhere in the statement, Hamas said it approves of “handing over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents (technocrats) based on Palestinian national consensus and based on Arab and Islamic support.”
Nevertheless, the group stated that the rest of the provisions mentioned in Trump’s proposal had to be agreed upon “through a comprehensive Palestinian national framework of which Hamas will be a part and to which it will contribute with full responsibility.”
It attributed the latter part of its decision to those provisions being linked to a comprehensive national position and based on relevant international laws and resolutions.
Earlier, the movement had expressed skepticism concerning the proposal, asserting that due to the sensitive nature of the elements involved, its response would be a distinctively collective one integrating the opinions of various Palestinian factions.
It had identified the matters at stake as the future of the Palestinian issue, Palestinians’ rights, core principles, and political identity, saying it would provide a conclusive answer following additional consultations with Palestinian groups.
(This item will be updated).
Quick reminder, comrade. It’s not a war, it’s a holocaust.
Just like dirty-ass rich kids pointing guns in farmers’ faces aren’t “settlers” they’re fucking colonizers.
It’s a tale as old as written human history.
Fuck off. The 2 are not mutually exclusive. Yes there is a holocaust going on but that does not mean there is not a war happening too. The Resistance is fighting a guerrilla war bravely and effectively. They are why the idf cannot occupy Gaza. The Resistance are why the idf hasn't been able to ethnically cleanse all of Palestine. Saying they are not fighting a war is not just a semantic argument it is a lie and it is entirely disrespectful and dismissive of the people who are standing up against the imperialist system.
Resistance against a holocaust doesn’t mean this is a war - Wanna know how many civilians have died in the Ukraine-Russian war? This is a military holocausting a group of people you fucking lib shithead.
Do you know what the word war means? Go look it up.
So you don't know what the word "war" means and you refuse to look it up. No investigation no right to speak.
Next you are going to tell me that the Korean war wasn't a war and neither was Iraq. If you had ever read a history book you would know that massive amounts of civilian causalities are the norm and The Ukraine situation is the odd one out. That is probably why Russia insists on calling it a Special Military Operation.
And if there was a holocaust happening in the 1940s does that mean that world war 2 wasn't a war?
The opposition to call it a war stems from the equivalence it gives. The Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is not the same as the resistance to it. Calling it a war is quickly followed by a liberal saying "both side is committing war crimes".
This is what war is defined as in Wikipedia, and I'd be honest, this is not what looks like happening in Gaza to me.
If you don't see the command structures in the Gaza Resistance your aren't looking or don't understand what you are looking at.
The thing that pisses me off about the who "its not a war its a genocide" thing is not just that it isn't true or even that it is just a pointless "AKTCHALY" debate pervert reddit parrot talking point that doesn't elevate anyone's understanding.
What gets me the most angry is that it strips the Palestinians of their agency and makes them victims. The people who want to cast them as victims are doing it because it justifies their own inaction. In their mind the Palestinians are victims who cant do anything and western leftists are just victims of capitalism so they don't have any responsibility either.