Hamas conditions ceasefire on Israel implementing understandings
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), special broadcast on the ceasefire reached with Israel after a series of Gaza rocket attacks
Al-Aqsa TV host: “The resistance says, Mr. Mu’min, that the calm is conditioned on the occupation implementing the understandings. In your opinion, could it be that the occupation will again breach [the understandings], or will it heed [them] this time thinking that the negotiations in this round were held under fire and rockets, under strikes by the joint war room.”
Al-Aqsa TV “Hebrew Affairs Editor and Expert” Mu’min Meqdad: “Of course this is a problem and a difficulty that the resistance is dealing with, particularly regarding who will be the guarantor for what the occupation will carry out in the coming rounds. It is not possible to rely on any body, because all of the bodies that were guarantors for the ceasefires in the past, such as at the end of the war of 2014 (i.e., Operation Protective Edge; see note below) and also in the recent rounds and wars – nearly all of them failed to guarantee the ceasefire or the occupation’s implementation of the ceasefire understandings. It is expected that the resistance will define a number of the conditions that the occupation- that will force the occupation to implement these understandings.”
Visual: Text on screen caption: “The resistance: Calm conditioned on the occupation implementing the understandings”