Hamas responds after Israel stops the entry of all help, supplies in Gaza

Hamas accused Israel of “blackmail” and asked the Egyptian mediators and Qatar to intervene after the office of the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced his decision to block the entry of all the aid and supplies to Gaza, as a confrontation about the truce that has stopped the struggles during the last six weeks increased.

The Palestinian group said that Israel’s measure was a “cheap extortion, a war crime and a flagrant blow to the agreement (high the fire).”

“We call on the mediators who press the occupation to comply with their obligations under the agreement, in all their phases,” he said, added that the only way to recover the hostages would be to adhere to the agreement and begin conversations for the second phase.

When commenting on the suspension of goods, the senior official of Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, told Reuters that the decision would affect the conversations of Alto El Fuego, adding that his group “does not respond to the pressures,” according to the Reuters news agency.

Israel stops Gaza’s assistant

Israel stopped on Sunday the entrance of all goods and supplies in the Gaza Strip and warned about “additional consequences” if Hamas does not accept a new proposal to extend a high fragile fire. Speaking at a press conference, Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that Palestinians in Gaza would not obtain free products and that additional negotiations should be linked to the release of hostages. He said that the United States “understands” Israel’s decision to stop the entry of goods to Gaza, blaming Hamas for current stagnation in conversations.

This occurred after the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, said he had adopted a proposal from the United States president, Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, for a high temporary fire in Gaza for the periods of Ramadán and Easter, hours after the first phase of the ceasefire previously agreed.

If it remembers, the truce would stop the struggles until the end of the Ramadan fasting period around March 31 and the Jewish Easter holidays around April 20. However, the truce would be conditioned to Hamas release half of the living hostages and dead the first day, with the rest released in the conclusion, if an agreement is reached in a permanent cessation.

Hamas rejects Israel’s proposal

Meanwhile, Hamas said he was committed to the high the original fire that had been scheduled to move on to a second phase, with negotiations aimed at a permanent end of the war, since he rejected the idea of ​​a temporary extension to the 42 -day truce.

Egyptian sources told Reuters that the Israeli delegation in Cairo had tried to extend the first phase for 42 days, while Hamas wanted to move on to the second phase of the high -fire agreement. Spokesman Hazem Qasse said on Saturday that the group rejected Israel’s “formulation” to extend the first phase.

Gaza truce

In the first phase of Alto El Fuego, Hamas delivered to 33 Israeli hostages, as well as five Thai returned in an unchanging release, in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian and arrested prisoners of Israeli prisons and the withdrawal of Israeli troops of some of their positions in Gaza.

According to the original agreement, the second phase intended to see the beginning of the negotiations on the release of the remaining 59 hostages, the complete withdrawal of the Israeli troops of Gaza, and a final end of the war.

However, conversations never started and Israel said that all their hostages must be returned to fight to stop.

“Israel will not allow the fire without the launch of our hostages,” said Netyahu’s office, announcing that the entrance of all goods and supplies in the Gaza strip would stop.

“If Hamas persists in his rejection, there will be additional consequences.”

Deadlock

In the last six weeks, both parties have accused the other of violating the agreement. But despite the repeated Hippo, it has remained in place, while the exchange of hostages for prisoners planned in the first phase was completed.

But there are wide gaps in key areas with respect to a permanent end of the war, including the way in which it would take a postwar administration of Gaza and what future there would be for Hamas, which triggered the invasion of Gaza de Israel with its attack to the south of Israel on October 7, 2023.

The attack killed 1,200 people, in the worst loss of one day lives in the history of Israel, and saw 251 people taken to Gaza as hostages. The Israeli campaign has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, displaced almost all its 2.3 million population and left Gaza a moor.

Israel insists that Hamas cannot participate in the future of the postwar of Gaza and that its military and government structures must be eliminated. It also refuses to bring to Gaza the Palestinian authority, the body established under the Oslo agreements three decades ago and that exercises a limited governance in occupied West Bank.

Hamas has said that he would not insist on continuing to rule Gaza, which has controlled since 2007, but it would have to be consulted on any future administration that has followed. The problem has been further confused by Trump’s proposal to eliminate the Palestinian population of Gaza and rebuild the coastal enclave as a property project under the property of the United States.