Hamas leader has confirmed that Israeli enemy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will not make any progress on the prisoner issue without a swap deal,” stressing that the escalation against Palestinian civilians is a losing gamble at the expense of his prisoners.
The leader told al-Quds Press Agency on Sunday that “the Israeli enemy escalation against civilians is a bloody, criminal message aimed at exerting military pressure on the resistance, coinciding with the arrival of our delegation to Cairo, the movements of mediators, and talk of new proposals.”
He reiterated that the enemy’s prisoners “will not be returned by military escalation, but by a decision… and Netanyahu refuses to make it.”
Hamas announced in a statement Saturday that its negotiating delegation had headed to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, stressing that it “deals positively with any proposals that guarantee a permanent ceasefire and the enemy’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.”
On March 18, the enemy reneged on the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in effect since January 19, and resumed its genocidal war on the devastated Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, enemy forces, with full American support, have been committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian Strip, leaving more than 166,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
