Faisal Abbas 
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said Thursday evening, that reports on submitting new proposals on Gaza aimed at jumping on the agreement, explaining that the meetings are still continuing with the brokers in Doha. In a statement on the Telegram platform, Qasim said that the movement “adheres to what was agreed upon and entered into the implementation of the second stage and applied its entitlements to pledge not to return to the war and withdraw from the entire Gaza Strip”, and “it adheres to the implementation of Israel its pledges to withdraw from Gaza and start withdrawing from the Philadelphi axis (Salah al -Din).” He explained that “Israel has not implemented the humanitarian protocol of the Gaza Agreement.”
This came after the American website Axius reported, earlier today, Thursday, from four well -informed sources as saying that the American envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkeov submitted a modern American proposal to extend the ceasefire agreement in Gaza for several weeks in exchange for the release of more detainees and the resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza. The sources confirmed that Witkeov presented to the parties on Wednesday an updated proposal that includes the extension of the ceasefire in Gaza even after Ramadan and Easter, which ends on April 20, and the resumption of the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
It also comes at a time when the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements discussed today, Thursday, in the Qatari capital, Doha, the course of the implementation of the site of the ceasefire site, the repeated Israeli violations, and the developments of the resumption of negotiations. According to a statement issued by the Hamas movement, the meeting brought together the head of the leadership council of Hamas, Mohamed Darwish, with the Secretary -General of the Islamic Jihad movement, Ziyad Al -Nakhala, and his deputy, Muhammad al -Hindi.
The meeting came after an Israeli shelling of a building in the Syrian capital, Damascus, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he continued to “Islamic Jihad”, without commenting from the movement, while the director of security in Damascus, Abdul Rahman Al -Dabbagh, said that the target building includes a “deserted office”, since the liberation of the capital on December 8, 2024, and that all the injured are civilian.
The statement stressed that the meeting reviewed “the course of the application of the ceasefire agreement, the frequent violations of the occupation, and the meetings that took place during the past two days to resume negotiations.” The statement stressed, “The necessity of fully adhering to the terms of the ceasefire and its various stages, especially withdrawing from the Philadelphi axis (Salah al -Din), opening the crossings, implementing the human protocol, introducing all the needs of the Gaza Strip, and starting to implement the second stage of the agreement without registration or condition.”
He also stressed “the commitment of the resistance to the continuation of the faithful application of what it signed in the ceasefire agreement and its complete amusement to complete this application.” The statement condemned the occupation’s crimes in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank and the destruction operations against the camps in Jenin, Nour Shams and other areas and cities of the West Bank, and preventing worshipers from praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque, which is considered a serious violation and a violation of Islamic endowments and religious places.
The Deputy Secretary -General of the Islamic Jihad movement, Muhammad al -Hindi, had revealed, earlier today, Thursday, that the movement’s delegation visited Doha was aiming to hold talks with Hamas on the second stage of the exchange of prisoners. Al -Hindi said, in a statement to Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed during his visit to Doha, that the movement’s position is to continue implementing the prisoner exchange agreement that was signed in Doha last January.
He stressed that the threats of the Israeli occupation prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and attempts to circumvent the agreement, are the fate of failure. A delegation from the Islamic Jihad movement arrived in Doha, last night, to hold talks on the second stage of the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation. Cairo and Doha have been witnessing several days ago, political and negotiating meetings, in the presence of the American President’s envoy for the Middle East Steve Wittakov with the aim of ensuring the continuation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
The foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, yesterday, Wednesday, held a meeting in Doha with Wetkov, in order to discuss developments in the Gaza Strip, and offered him a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip.
