‘We are not asking Hamas to disappear as a political movement’, says the diplomat overseeing the US-brokered truce in Gaza.
Nickolay Mladenov, the top diplomat overseeing the United States-brokered “ceasefire” in Gaza as part of US President Donald Trump’s International Board of Peace, has said he could envision a political role for Hamas in post-war Gaza if the Palestinian group disarms.
“We are not asking Hamas to disappear as a political movement,” Mladenov told reporters on Wednesday at a rare news conference in Jerusalem.
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He said the phased ceasefire deal was paralysed over Hamas not yet disarming, calling it “not negotiable”.
Disarmament remained a sticking point that stalled progress on other fronts, while Hamas…
