‘Too soon to know’ what Hamas response to ceasefire talks will be • FRANCE 24 English

We haven’t had any kind of official response yet uh and I actually think it’s too soon to know what hamas’s real response to the US uh mediated framework that was put on the table more than a week ago a Qatar as you said uh said it

Was positive Hamas also said it saw it in a quote positive spirit but then Hamas listed uh a series of Demands that for Israel are really non-starters uh for example a complete end uh a complete ceasefire an end to the aggression Israel has long said that it

Is not interested in ending this war but it would pause uh the war in order to get out its hostages get more Aid in uh into the Gaza Strip so if in fact that is hamas’s position uh then this may not be a very positive response at all it

May be a negative response um but I think we’re really going to have to wait Hamas also for example said that in the deal there’s an agreement to lift the quote unquote blockade of the Gaza Strip uh that seems highly unlikely uh that suddenly after this war there’s going to

Be no inspection of anything that goes into the Gaza Strip so uh you know President Biden said that Hamas was positive but their response was a little over the top maybe that’s what he was referring refering to these kind of grand statements uh that certainly don’t

Show that the gaps uh have been bridged at all

“It’s too soon to know” what Hamas’s response to the framework will be, ABC correspondent Jordana Miller says. Qatar, which mediated the a temporary ceasefire earlier in the conflict, said the response from Hamas was “positive”. But there hasn’t been an “official response” from the Palestinian militant group since the proposal was submitted a week ago, says Miller.

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8 comments

  3. Hamas is not losing the fight and will be silly to give up their main bargaining chip for a pause and allow Israel to resupply all over again.
    That would be worse for them.

  4. Mr. Blinken is a dishonorable and the least trustworthy person i can imagine. Nobody should do a deal with him or even acknowledge his existence. He has shown himself to be a callous, cruel, brute, and bloodthirsty warmonger who acts with impunity and then lies about it.

  6. No false news, common sense, as long as your PM Nathan yahoo insist to remove Hamas by force then Hamas will give you dead bodies in return. HaMAS RESPONSE-FULL IDF withdrawal and full prisoner return. No one gives way. PM is asking for dead hostages I afraid.

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