Hamas: Durable Truce Must Lead to Ending ’Israel’s’ Seige on Gaza

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Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal said that a lasting ceasefire must lead to the lifting of the "Israeli" regime's blockade of the seized Gaza Strip.

In an interview in Qatar's city of Doha on Sunday, Mashaal said the 72-hour ceasefire Hamas reached with the Zionist regime on Sunday "is one of the ways or tactics to ensure successful negotiations or to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to [seized] Gaza." 

He said that the final "goal we insist on is having the demands of Palestinians met and the [seized] Gaza Strip exist without a blockade."

"We insist on this goal. In the case of "Israeli" procrastination or continued aggression, Hamas is ready with other Palestinian factions to resist on ground and politically and... to face all possibilities," he said.

The remarks by Mashaal come in as "Israeli" and Palestinian negotiators on Sunday accepted an Egyptian proposal for a 72-hour ceasefire in seized Gaza from one minute past midnight local time.

Moreover, the "Israeli" regime has imposed an all-out land, aerial, and naval blockade on seized Gaza since June 2007.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team