‘Will not be concerned’: Hamas rejects formal signing of Trump’s Gaza peace deal; calls proposal ‘absurd’ – The Occasions of India


Hamas is not going to participate within the formal signing of the Gaza peace cope with Israel in Egypt, information company AFP reported quoting an official of the militant group.“The matter of the official signing — we is not going to be concerned,” political bureau member Hossam Badran instructed AFP in an interviewHe added that Hamas “acted principally by… Qatari and Egyptian mediators” throughout ceasefire talks in Egypt.Badran described US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Hamas members to depart the Gaza Strip as “absurd” and stated that the militant group will “repel aggression” if hostilities by Israel resume“Discuss expelling Palestinians, whether or not they’re Hamas members or not, from their land is absurd and nonsense,” he stated.He additionally stated that disarmament, included in US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, is “out of the query.” “The proposed weapons handover is out of the query and never negotiable,” the official stated.This comes after Trump introduced that Hamas will start releasing Israeli hostages on Monday or Tuesday beneath a US-brokered ceasefire, which additionally entails returning the our bodies of those that died in captivity.”Trump has stated that the problem of Hamas surrendering its weapons shall be addressed within the second part of the Gaza peace plan.