In an interview with Israeli public broadcaster Kan, U.S. President Donald Trump’s hostage envoy Adam Boehler claimed that during his direct talks with Hamas, the terror group proposed a five-to-ten year truce with Israel, which would see the group disarm and disengage from political governance.
In the interview, Boehler was asked, “In these last few weeks, you’ve been meeting face-to-face with Hamas officials trying to extend the ceasefire. Is there any progress?”
Acknowledging that progress is happening in the form of “baby steps,” Boehler said that Hamas had suggested “relatively reasonable things and workable things.”
“They suggested exchanging all prisoners, so all of our hostages now for some number of prisoner swap. We didn’t get into that,” Boehler told Kan Reshet Bet. “And they suggested a five-year to ten-year truce where Hamas would lay down all weapons and where the United States would help, as well as other countries, ensure that there’s no tunnels. There’s nothing taken on the military side and that Hamas is not involved in politics going forward. And I thought that was not a bad first offer.”
However, in an article in Qatari news site Al-Aarbi al-Jadeed on Monday morning, a Hamas spokesperson denied Boehler’s claim of Hamas disarming. […]
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