‘What Kerry promised Hamas’

ToI’s Avi Issacharoff, who on Friday broke the details of the Kerry ceasefire proposal, reports that, according to Palestinian sources, Kerry informed Hamas via Qatar last week that under his proposal, the US would guarantee the fulfillment of many of Hamas’s demands for an end to the war.

Writes Issacharoff: “The guarantees promised to Hamas by Kerry under a ceasefire, as relayed to The Times of Israel by the Palestinian sources, pertain to the following issues: an easing of restrictions on the passage of goods from Israel to Gaza; an easing of restrictions on the passage of traders and businessmen from Gaza to Israel; expansion of the permitted Gaza fishing zone to 12 miles off the coast; the opening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, to be manned by Palestinian Authority officials; and a promise to ensure the transfer of salaries to Gaza’s government employees.”

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