Palestinian leaders discuss Netanyahu, Doha talks, with Al Mayadeen
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Senior members within the Fatah and PIJ movements speak to Al Mayadeen about the war on Gaza, the American green light, and the upcoming Doha negotiations.
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Abbas Zaki and Marwan Abed al-Aal speak to Al Mayadeen, on August 14, 2024. (Al Mayadeen)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has received a paper from the Americans greenlighting the continuation of the war on Gaza whenever he wishes," Abbas Zaki, a member of the Central Committee within the Fatah movement, revealed.
In a statement to Al Mayadeen, Zaki said it was Qatar and Egypt's duty to ensure that the negotiations are not an "American plot the West is exercising in the region."
He further emphasized the district in the US administration "who does not want to understand that the Zionist era in the region has ended before the Resistance's will," adding that the Americans must fix the problem that is Netanyahu and that major countries should find a solution to end the war on the Gaza Strip.
Zaki clarified that the Israeli plot to eliminate Palestinian rights was clear before October 7, noting that the Palestinian cause has become universal amid the formation of a new world.
'Netanyahu is trying to drag the region into war'
In turn, Marwan Abed al-Aal, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad political bureau in Lebanon, told Al Mayadeen that Hamas was uninterested in rephrasing the agreement for the negotiations that are scheduled on Thursday.
He further asserted that Netanyahu was "directing the conflict toward Iran and is plunging the region into war."
He also considered that "Israel" was going to a battle ruled by existential threats, adding that the region was facing a risk of the expansion of the war.
"Escalation on support fronts will not lead to an all-out war," al-Aal said.
He lastly called for "re-strategizing the Palestinian struggle and ending the prevailing division in the absence of a vision," adding, "We are facing a war to liberate the Palestinian people, and political discourse must proceed from this fact."
Netanyahu's add-ons hamper final deal with Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added further conditions that have hampered mediated negotiations with the Palestinian Resistance for a ceasefire, US and officials from other countries told NBC News. The information obtained by the American broadcaster confirms multiple statements issued by the Palestinian Resistance factions, including Hamas, which explained, on multiple occasions, that Netanyahu is doing his best to evade a ceasefire and prolong the war on Gaza.
Other than the additional clauses that change the entire structure of previously proposed deals, the Israeli regime also assassinated the top Palestinian negotiator and Hamas leader, martyr Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iran, plunging the entire area into a heightened state of tension.
As reported by Palestinian Resistance leaders who spoke to Al Mayadeen following recent rounds of mediated talks, the Israeli negotiating team was instructed to add clauses that would put restrictions on the release of a number of Palestinian detainees in exchange for Israeli captives, allow the establishment of Israeli occupation forces checkpoints in the Gaza Strip during periods of truce, and maintain "Israel's" occupation of the Philadephi Axis and the Rafah border crossing.
When the outlines of a deal are agreed on with the Israeli negotiating team, the information would be sent to Netanyahu, who, according to a Middle Eastern official, cited by NBC News, "would then move the goalposts and propose new conditions."
