home
article
Blinken Criticizes Hamas for "Unworkable" Changes to Gaza Cease-Fire Plan

Blinken Criticizes Hamas for "Unworkable" Changes to Gaza Cease-Fire Plan

ai generated text

A senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, denied that the group had put forward new ideas. The proposed deal follows an outline made public last month by President Biden. Despite efforts to reach a deal, Israel and Hamas appear to be far from reaching an agreement, with Blinken stating that the U.S. will continue to push for a truce on an urgent basis in the coming days.

1 / 2

International Rescue Committee
1. The US's latest humanitarian package for Gaza is a welcome step.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
World Health Organization
1. A significant proportion of Gaza's population is now facing catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions.
2. Despite reports of increased delivery of food, there is currently no evidence that those who need it most are receiving sufficient quantity and quality of food.
Hamas
1. We look, and continue to look very carefully, at international humanitarian law. At laws of armed conflict, human rights. And we have a number of our own processes within the US administration, including within my own department, to assess whether Israel or any other combatant in any other conflict is adhering to those.
2. He continues to talk about Israel's agreement of the latest (ceasefire) proposal, but we have not heard any Israeli official speak out on this.
Ezzat El Rashq
Hamas
1. The Israeli media's incitement to Hamas's response is an indication of attempts to evade the agreement's obligations.
Osama Hamdan
Hamas
1. There are no significant amendments that, according to Hamas leadership, warrant objection.
2. Our response is a clear reaffirmation of our commitment to the ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza, a commitment we have consistently upheld.
Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
Qatar Foreign Ministry
1. These are not new efforts or dynamics for negotiations. There is always space and 'give and take'. After all, these are negotiations to reach an agreement. There is no absolute response – yes or no.
Jake Sullivan
US National Security Agency
1. Our aim is to bring this process to a conclusion. Our view is that the time for haggling is over.
Anthony Blinken
White House
1. Are they looking after one guy who may be for now safe -- buried, I don't know, 10 storeys underground somewhere in Gaza -- while the people that he purports to represent continue to suffer in a crossfire of his own making?
2. In the coming weeks, we will put forward proposals for key elements of day-after planning.
3. Instead, Hamas waited nearly two weeks and then proposed more changes, a number of which go beyond positions that it had previously taken and accepted.
4. We're determined to try to bridge the gaps. And I believe those gaps are bridgeable.
5. When I met Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday in Israel, he reaffirmed his support and his commitment to bringing this proposal across the finish line.
6. Today... only one thing stands in the way of this deal happening, and that's Hamas.

Blinken Criticizes Hamas for "Unworkable" Changes to Gaza Cease-Fire Plan

Israel-Palestine Conflict

sources

perspectives

countries

organizations

persons

technicals