Following the Hamas statement agreeing to key elements of the Trump peace plan for Gaza, Hamas officials explained what the movement will and will not accept.
“We are ready to enter into direct negotiations immediately to arrange the prisoner exchange and the on-the-ground conditions for it,” Hamas leader Osama Hamdan told Al-Araby in an Oct 4 post. However, “We do not accept that the affairs of Gaza, as a part of Palestine, be managed by any non-Palestinian party.” In other words, no Tony Blair and his panel of billionaires. “The entry of foreign forces or a foreign administration into the Gaza Strip is an issue that is not acceptable to Palestinians.”
“We renew our approval for the administration of the Gaza Strip to be handed over to a Palestinian body of technocrats,” Hamdan continued. “Future issues related to the Palestinian state must be answered within a broad national framework.... Hamas does not monopolize the right to answer them alone. We do not accept any party other than Palestinians managing Gaza’s affairs.”
