Hamas responds to the proposal to frame the truce agreement in Gaza – Al-Hiwar Algeria

Hamas agreed to a framework agreement to reach a complete and sustainable truce in 3 stages, each stage lasting 45 days and including agreement on the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead, ending the siege, and reconstruction.

Hamas demanded that the complete truce talks be completed before the start of the second phase, and that the occupation forces be ensured outside the borders of the Gaza Strip and the start of the reconstruction process.

She added a detailed appendix to the submitted proposal with steps to implement the first phase of the agreement, and stipulated that it be part of it.

According to the same sources, in the first phase, Hamas offered to release Israeli detainees, including women, children, the elderly, and the sick, in exchange for 1,500 prisoners, including 500 who received life sentences and high sentences, in addition to all the women, children, and elderly people in the occupation prisons.

Hamas also stipulated that at least 500 trucks of aid and fuel be brought daily into all areas of the Gaza Strip during the first phase.

The sources explained that, in the first phase, Hamas also demanded the return of the displaced to their places of residence, the guarantee of freedom of movement between the north and south of the Strip, and the opening of the crossings.

Hamas’ response included the necessity of approving the introduction of at least 60,000 temporary homes and 200,000 shelter tents into the Strip during the first phase, in addition to approving a plan to reconstruct homes, economic facilities, and public facilities that were destroyed, within a period not exceeding 3 years.

Hamas also demanded that settlers stop storming Al-Aqsa Al-Sharif, and that conditions in the blessed mosque be returned to those before 2002.

The sources confirmed that Hamas requested that Qatar, Egypt, the United States, Turkey and Russia be guarantors of the implementation of that agreement.

Qatar had previously revealed that it had received from Hamas an “initial positive confirmation” regarding the release of hostages and the truce proposal, but it has not yet responded definitively.

Reuters quoted a Hamas leader as confirming that the movement was studying a new truce proposal in Gaza.