Despite an agreement to extend a temporary truce with Israel by an additional 120 hours, a senior Hamas official in Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk, says no progress has been made in Egyptian-mediated talks for a permanent ceasefire.
Ynet quotes Marzouk as saying that additional rounds of negotiations will be necessary.
“You can’t say we’ve agreed on anything,” Marzouk reportedly says. “The disagreements are over the terminology Israel uses in every sentence in every clause of the agreement. What Israel gives with its right hand, it takes with its left hand.”
Meanwhile, the prime minister of the Palestinian national unity government, Rami Hamdallah, says in an interview with Arab media that the Palestinian Authority will agree to take responsibility for all Gaza border crossings and the airport Hamas wants built in the coastal enclave.
“I believe we have the ability to oversee the port and the airport,” Ynet quotes Hamdallah as saying. “The Palestinians must be granted their full right to rebuild an airport, because it was destroyed by Israel.”
He reportedly adds that the Oslo Accords stipulate that the Palestinians can build an airport in the Gaza Strip.
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