Hamas says no alternative to complete ceasefire in Gaza

Osama Hamdan, representative of Hamas in Lebanon said any ceasefire agreement “must guarantee all what we are asking for”.

Hamdan highlighted the Palestinian Resistance main demands. “We insist on reaching a complete ceasefire, call for a complete withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, and lifting the siege on Gaza,” he said, adding,
“However, the Israeli army wants to continue its military attacks in Gaza, and continue its siege.”

The ongoing mediation involves two Arab countries, Egypt and Qatar, along with the United States, which still refuses to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

In earlier statements, Hamdan and other Hamas officials have warned of deliberate misinformation about the movement’s position on the ceasefire, asserting that it is yet to declare a final position.

Israel is being accused of committing genocide in Gaza. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, nearly 27,500 Palestinians have been killed, and over 66,600 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 8,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all of the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.