Hamas chief Haniyeh leads Eid prayers in central Gaza
Iran Press- Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday that "we are on the way to ending the blockade on Gaza," adding "this is the result of your steadfastness and your struggle, and any humanitarian aid to Gaza will not be made at a diplomatic price."
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Indirect negotiations between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and the Israeli regime , brokered by Egyptian and UN officials have reportedly included discussion on easing the blockade, but by no means a complete lifting of it.
Speaking to thousands of Palestinians during prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, Haniyeh didn’t directly address the possibility of a truce, mooted by some Zionist and Palestinian media outlets for weeks.
“Thanks to these marches and resistance, we are just around the corner from closing the page on this unjust blockade,” he says, referring to months of deadly clashes along the Gaza-Israel border.
According to Haniyeh, the proposed aid will be given under a national Palestinian agreement and under the supervision of an Arab security apparatus, "so that there would be appropriate guarantees, with an emphasis on the Palestinian resistance forces maintaining their status as providers of protection and security for the Palestinian people."
Haniyeh further said that U.S. President Donald Trump's "deal of the century," was "clinically dead."
He added that any talks of internal Palestinian reconciliation requires the lifting of sanctions imposed by the Palestinian Authority, and called on the PA to cease security coordination with the Israeli regime, as well as ending persecution of Hamas and other resistance groups in the occupied West Bank.
News source: Ruptly
Video source: APTN
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