Hamas proposed amendments to Gaza ceasefire plan ‘not significant’, senior leader tells Reuters

Hamas demands it select a list of 100 Palestinians with long-term sentences to be released from Israeli jails, said the senior Hamas leader.

REUTERS JUNE 13, 2024 08:20

Updated: JUNE 13, 2024 09:53
Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2023.(photo credit: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA)
The changes that Gaza-based terror organization Hamas has requested to a ceasefire proposal presented by the United States are “not significant” and include the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, a senior leader within the group told Reuters on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Hamas had proposed numerous changes, some unworkable, to the US-backed proposal but that mediators were determined to close the gaps.

Hamas demands it select a list of 100 Palestinians with long-term sentences to be released from Israeli jails, said the senior Hamas leader.

Palestinians seen at the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, on November 17, 2023 (credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)

Hamas interested in selecting list of prisoners for release

Hamas objected to the Israeli document’s exclusion of 100 Palestinian prisoners with high sentences, whom Hamas would identify, as well as the restriction on the time period for the release of prisoners with high sentences to no more than 15 years remaining of their sentences, said the Hamas official.

“There are no significant amendments that, according to Hamas leadership, warrant objection,” said the Hamas leader.

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