“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

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“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.”Bassem Naim, Hamas – Online English Telegram Channel, April 11, 2024.