The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is willing to have a ceasefire, but not to engage in direct talks with Israeldeclared this Saturday the member of the political bureau of that radical group Mousa Abu Marzouk.
“Hamas is willing (to a ceasefire). We call for a ceasefire and the implementation of the UN General Assembly resolution. Direct negotiations, no. This is an occupying force, we are not willing to maintain direct contacts with them“he declared Marzoukaccording to the news agency Sputnik.
The leader of the Islamist movement also criticized the position of Israel before the UN General Assemblyand highlighted that 120 countries voted for a ceasefire.
“The representative of Israel insulted the UN and disrespected it, despite the fact that 120 countries voted in favor of the ceasefire and aid to the victims,” he noted. Marzouk.
This Friday, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution presented by the group of Arab countries that calls for imposing an immediate, durable and sustainable humanitarian truce in the conflict in the Gaza Stripby 120 votes in favor, 14 against and 45 abstentions.
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The Hamas attack that provoked Israeli retaliation
On October 7, Hamas launched a bloody attack on Israel, in which some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed and another 229 were kidnapped by Islamists, according to authorities.
In retaliation, Israel mobilized 300,000 reservists and began a wave of bombings against the Gaza Strip, which he keeps blocked. More than 7,700 people, most of them civilians and including more than 3,000 children, died in these bombings in the Palestinian territory.
United Nations and humanitarian organizations denounced that the Israeli attacks and the ultimatums they send to force Gazans to undertake dubious transfers to safe areas constitute “war crimes.”
“We are very concerned that war crimes are being committed. We are concerned about the collective punishment inflicted on the inhabitants of Loop in response to the atrocious attacks by Hamas, which also constitute war crimes,” he said Ravina Shamdasanispokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a briefing of the UN in Geneva.
Source: Ambito
