Kerry proposal answered Hamas demands, ignored Israel’s

Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reveals the contents of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal that left Israeli ministers “shocked” on Friday.

In the proposal, Ravid writes, “Egypt’s traditional role of supervising implementation of the agreement has been passed to Turkey and Qatar – two states which support Hamas and are hostile to Israel.”

The proposal ensured a ceasefire would mark the beginning of talks on Hamas’s demands, including “arrangements to secure the opening of crossings, allow the entry of goods and people and ensure the social and economic livelihood of the Palestinian people living in Gaza, transfer of funds to Gaza for the payment of salaries for public employees and address all security issues.”

Meanwhile, “Israel’s demands were mentioned in the most general of terms in the phrase ‘address all security issues.’ There was no one mention of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip of its rocket supply or advanced weapons, and not the dismantling of the terror tunnels.”