Khalil al-Haya, member of the Hamas “political bureau,” said that the Egyptian intelligence officials carried “positive responses” from Israel.
March 30, 2019 17:41
A Palestinian woman reacts after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a protest marking Land Day and the first anniversary of a surge of border protests, at the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip March 30, 2019. . (photo credit: ASHRAF ABU AMRAH / REUTERS)
Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials said on Saturday that the weekly protests near the Gaza-Israel border will continue despite Egypt’s ongoing efforts to reach ceasefire understandings between the Palestinian factions and Israel.
Palestinian sources claimed that the Egyptian intelligence officials who have been mediating between the Palestinian factions and Israel in the past few days have made progress towards reaching new ceasefire understandings. The Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip are now waiting for Israel’s final response to their demands, the sources added.
The sources claimed that Israel has accepted most of the Palestinian factions’ demands, including the expansion of the fishing zone, the reopening of the border crossings, the delivery of additional Qatari funds to the Gaza Strip and creating job opportunities for thousands of unemployed Palestinians there.
The Egyptian team, headed by senior General Intelligence Service official Ahmed Abdel Khaleq, met on Thursday and Friday with leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian factions and discussed with them ways of achieving a new truce with Israel.
Khalil al-Haya, member of the Hamas “political bureau,” said that the Egyptian intelligence officials carried “positive responses” from Israel. The Egyptian officials, he said, will return to Israel on Sunday to receive timelines for the implementation of the reported understandings.
Haya said that the weekly protests along the border with Israel, which are called “Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege,” will continue until they achieve their goals. “In the past year, the weekly marches achieved some of their goals,” he added. “They will achieve more goals.”
He was speaking to reporters during a tour of the site of Saturday’s mass protests near the border with Israel on the occasion of the first anniversary of the protests, which coincide with the commemoration of Land Day. The Hamas official said that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will continue to put pressure on Israel until it complies with their “legitimate demands.”
Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas “political bureau,” on Friday phoned Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdel Rahman al-Thani and the deputy director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Amro Hanafi, and discussed with them the efforts to reach ceasefire understandings with Israel.
A source close to Hamas said it was unclear at this stage whether Qatar would continue to provide financial aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The source was commenting on a report that suggested that Qatar has agreed to send $40 million in cash to the Gaza Strip as part of the reported Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire understandings.
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said that the protests will continue until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is removed. “We won’t give up Jerusalem and the Arab Golan Heights,” Zahar said. “We won’t abandon the use of weapons against the occupation.”
Khaled al-Batsh, a senior Islamic Jihad official and head of the committee in charge of the weekly protests near the Gaza-Israel border, said on Saturday that the demonstrations will continue for another year. He said that the Palestinians were determined to thwart US President Donald Trump’s unpublished plan for peace in the Middle East, known as the “deal of the century.”
Speaking to reporters near the border with Israel, al-Batsh said that Saturday’s protests were designed to prepare the Palestinians for a “new phase during which they will continue the struggle to restore their stolen rights and end the siege on the Gaza Strip.”
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WarSclerotic 
March 30, 2019 at 4:58 PM
Do NOT give them anything it will NOT work, as we have learned from the past .
Their ultimate goal is to destroy Israel.
They are saying it loud and clear, are we deaf ?
March 30, 2019 at 6:59 PM
Nominations for the role of “Best Victim Reaction to Israeli Aggression” are now being accepted.
March 30, 2019 at 8:56 PM
Egyptian researched [sic] Mohamed Gad El-Zoghby was asked in a February 9, 2019 interview on Safa TV (Saudi Arabia/Egypt) who was worse: Adolf Hitler or Imam Khomeini. He answered: “Objectively speaking, Hitler wins. But as far as we’re concerned, we should erect a statue of Hitler for what he did to the Jews.” El-Zoghby accused Imam Khomeini of collaborating with the Jews and praised Hitler for supporting the Arab cause in Palestine. [El-Zoghby is a researcher and a poet. He has a master’s degree in shari’a and law from Ain Shams University.]
https://gellerreport.com/2019/03/egyptian-statue-hitler.html/