Hamas Official Says Group Willing To Discuss ‘Freezing Or Storing’ Its Weapons

Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who is based outside of Gaza, told The Associated Press on Sunday that Hamas is willing to discuss the idea of “freezing or storing” its weapons to advance the US’s Gaza plan.

The 20-point US plan calls for the “demilitarization” of Gaza, and Israel has been demanding Hamas’s disarmament, but so far, Israel and Hamas have just signed a much narrower deal to enact a ceasefire, which Israel continues to violate , and the details of a long-term agreement still need to be worked out.

Naim reaffirmed Hamas’s position that it’s willing to disarm as part of a process that leads to a Palestinian state, something the Israeli government strongly opposes. But Naim added that Hamas was “very open-minded” about what it could do with its weapons and suggested some sort of temporary deal.

“We can talk about freezing or storing or laying down, with the Palestinian guarantees, not to use it at all during this ceasefire time or truce,” Naim told AP during an interview in Doha, Qatar.

The Hamas official also said the group supports the idea of an international peacekeeping force being deployed to Gaza, but not one that’s tasked with disarmament.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com

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