Israeli PM Netanyahu wasn’t seeking a Gaza ceasefire, aiming instead to crush Hamas and free hostages by force, Hamas official Basem Naim says.
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00:00After 14 months, we finally have a deal. But this is very similar to the deal that the
00:07Biden administration proposed back in May. So why now and not then when so many lives
00:13could have been spared?
00:16Unfortunately, I have to admit that we have received the Israeli proposal for a ceasefire
00:25agreement on May 27th through the mediators. This proposal was announced and stated by
00:35President Biden in his famous speech, and then it became part of the UN Security Council
00:41resolution. And we have in all the stations, we have welcomed this and expressed our readiness
00:48to go ahead. But unfortunately, since that time, for more than seven months of horror
00:54and killing and genocide, Netanyahu was not planning, was not intending to go for a ceasefire.
01:03And he was still hoping that he might be able to achieve his announced goal at the beginning
01:10of the aggression after October 7th, to crush Hamas, to displace the Palestinian people
01:15outside the Gaza Strip, and to retrieve his captured Israelis by force.