The tactics for deception

I was contacted today by different journalists and media outlets asking about the latest proposal of the Cairo negotiations between the movement and the Israelis, through the mediators. Fine, but the most outrageous is the repeated questions regarding the “hostages in Gaza, how many alive or dead, does Hamas rejected the proposal because it can’t release 40 hostages in the first phase, etc ….?
*Here I have to raise the following points:*
– it’s a ceasefire negotiations and not a prisoner deal negotiations, the prisoners deal is one of the items to be negotiated. Why do we fall into the trap set by Netanyahu? *NEGOTIATION PROCESS* like the *PEACE PROCESS*, To create a process of negotiation without any intentions to reach any agreement. Everyone knows today that he is ready to sacrifice even the lives of his own people, to save himself from the next day. It’s not about Hamas response, it’s about Netanyahu goals of the negotiations.
– The life of any human being is priceless and precious, but all human life. No one is asking me about 1000s of Palestinian innocents in kidnapped by Israel after October 7th, at least 3000 from Gaza, including women and children, some of them executed in the field in front of their families, and others in the Israeli concentration camps, exposed to all kinds of horrific circumstances. The lives of their people aren’t more precious than ours, all human beings “as human beings” are chosen, no specification of religion, colour, sex, ethnicity or nationality.
– Part of negotiations is to reach a ceasefire agreement to have enough time and safety to collect final and more precise data about the captured Israelis, because they are in different palaces by different groups, some of them are under the rubble killed with our own people, and we negotiate to get heavy equipments for this purpose.
– What we are demanding around the negotiating table are the expected results of such negotiations, but more importantly these results are the true guarantees for a sustainable quietness and opening the way for relief and rebuilding of Gaza, to give our people a perspective of hope.
– We can’t accept (no Palestinian will accept) by our free will the renewal of Israeli existence inside the strip, to give Israel the legitimacy to launch a new aggression against our people (because the are proposing a temporary pause) and to keep 2,3 million Palestinians in Gaza displaced from their homes and their movement under the Israeli control.
– What the Israelis failed to achieve by the carpet bombardment and genocide along 6 months, won’t be able to achieve by more force or absurd or delusional negotiations.

Dr Basem Naim, Member of political bureau of Hamas in Gaza

Apr 11, 2024
Official website – Hamas movement
https://t.me/+kUoQCMfm8bI1NWE0