{"id":314189,"date":"2025-08-24T05:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314189"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:03:32","slug":"gaza-ceasefire-deal-possible-but-netanyahu-preventing-it-top-hamas-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314189","title":{"rendered":"Gaza ceasefire deal possible but Netanyahu preventing it: Top Hamas official"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Aug 23, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi\u00a0says a comprehensive deal to end Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza is possible, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberately sabotaging negotiations\u00a0and insisting on the continuation of the onslaught.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA comprehensive agreement is entirely possible, but it is Netanyahu who is preventing it from happening. He wants to continue the war in order to achieve his political goals inside the occupied territories,\u201d he said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mardawi stated that the Israeli leader did not directly respond to the latest proposal from regional mediators for a Gaza ceasefire,\u00a0and instead made contradictory statements with the aim of wasting time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamas has agreed without any reservations to the proposals presented by Egyptian and Qatari mediators, which were supported by the United States. However, Netanyahu has refused to send a negotiating team and continues to pursue a policy of stalling the talks and evasion,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

The high-profile Hamas member emphasized that his group does not oppose any plan that would result in the cessation of Israeli atrocities, the release of Israeli captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid, and reconstruction of Gaza with a fully Palestinian approach.<\/p>\n

Mardawi also pointed out that the Israeli Channel 10 television channel has documented in its reports that Netanyahu has thwarted efforts to reach an agreement five times so far.<\/p>\n

The US State Department has also acknowledged that the 75-year-old leader of the right-wing Likud political party is preventing any agreement, and insists on prolonging the Gaza war, he continued.<\/p>\n

The senior Hamas official took a swipe at Israel for implementing a systematic policy of starvation and raging thirst against Palestinians in Gaza, emphasizing that the regime\u2019s minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, along with a number of other officials, have explicitly stated they have put the strategy high on their agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Zionist regime is preventing aid convoys from entering the Gaza Strip and obstructing their distribution process. It has also established an institution called the Gaza Humanitarian Organization, which is in fact a terrorist organization that massacres innocent people seeking aid,\u201d Mardawi said.<\/p>\n

He added that the occupying regime bombed food warehouses, water wells, and storage tanks, and also targeted civilians who had gathered to receive small portions of humanitarian aid. All this has led to an escalation of the humanitarian disaster in the war-battered region.<\/p>\n

Mardawi added that the United Nations has officially confirmed the spread of famine in Gaza, which marks a complete and comprehensive condemnation of the occupying Tel Aviv regime, which uses hunger as a tool to blackmail Palestinians and extract political concessions.<\/p>\n

The senior Hamas member called on the international community not to be satisfied with mere reports, but to fulfill its legal and humanitarian responsibility by taking practical and immediate measures to stop the famine and genocide against Palestinians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is facing a real test of humanity and civilization. The occupying regime must be punished for its crimes in Gaza. It is also necessary to pressure the US to stop supporting Netanyahu\u2019s policies,\u201d Mardawi said.<\/p>\n

At least 62,622 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 157,673 individuals injured in the brutal Israeli onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the health ministry of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is consistent with earlier claims by former U.S. State Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller that Israel had deliberately undermined previous ceasefire agreements <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314190,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314189\/revisions\/314190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}