No Israeli captives to be released before Gaza ceasefire: Hamas
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Wed / 13 December 2023 / 10:43
The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, humiliated the Israeli occupation and brought the Israeli occupation closer to its end, Hamas politburo member Osama Hamdan said.
Tehran (ISNA) - In a press conference held by Hamas in Beirut, Lebanon, regarding the developments of the aggression on Gaza, Hamdan said the occupation's arrest of a group of displaced persons in UNRWA schools was "a crime reminiscent of the Nazis' crimes against the Jews and the violations of the Abu Ghraib prison."
The Hamas top official reiterated the Palestinian people's rejection of all displacement bids in Gaza and the West Bank, emphasizing that "Palestine was and will forever remain for the Palestinians."
"There will be no negotiation for [the release of the Israeli captives] before a ceasefire in Gaza," Hamdan said. "The occupation will not succeed in liberating any alive prisoner by force, and their lives will be endangered."
This comes after the Saudi Elaph news website revealed that a European capital is hosting secret meetings between an Israeli and a Qatari delegation to discuss a new prisoner-captive exchange deal with Hamas.
Quoting a high-level diplomatic source, the site reported that the Israeli and Qatari delegations are working on formulating a new exchange deal that includes children, women, and men, including three senior officers in the Israeli army who were captured by Hamas.
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