Watan-The Lebanese newspaper “Al-Akhbar” revealed the literal text of the response submitted by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas to the framework agreement presented to it after the Paris meeting.
On Tuesday evening, Hamas announced the submission of its response, which consisted of 3 pages and included substantial amendments to the “Paris Framework Agreement.”
Hamas’s response to the intermediaries who divided the agreement into three stages included a special annex with guarantees and demands aimed at ending the war on Gaza and its repercussions.
The introduction stated that the agreement aims to halt mutual military operations, achieve complete and sustainable calm, exchange prisoners between the parties, end the siege on Gaza, initiate reconstruction, and allow the return of residents and displaced persons to their homes.
It also includes providing shelter and relief requirements for all residents in all areas of the Gaza Strip.
The First Stage of the Agreement
This stage aims to release all Israeli detainees, including women, children (under 19 years old and not recruited), the elderly, and the sick, in exchange for a specified number of Palestinian prisoners.
It also seeks to intensify humanitarian aid, relocate forces outside populated areas, allow the reconstruction of hospitals, homes, and facilities in all areas of the Strip, and allow the United Nations and its agencies to provide humanitarian services.
Hamas’s response includes a temporary cessation of military operations, a halt to aerial reconnaissance, the relocation of Israeli forces away from populated areas in all Gaza Strip, alongside the separation line, to facilitate prisoner exchanges.
Prisoner Exchange between Hamas and Israel
A prisoner exchange took place between Hamas and Israel during the first ceasefire. Hamas’s response to the intermediaries stated:
- Complete cessation of military operations from both sides, including all forms of aerial activity, throughout this stage.
- Relocation of Israeli forces away from populated areas in all Gaza Strip, alongside the separation line to facilitate the exchange of detainees.
- Both parties release Israeli detainees, including women, children (under 19 years old and not recruited), the elderly, and the sick, in exchange for all prisoners in Israeli jails, regardless of gender or age, including 1500 Palestinian prisoners, 500 of whom are serving life sentences or long terms, as named by Hamas.
- Completion of the necessary legal procedures to ensure that Palestinian and Arab prisoners are not re-arrested on the same charges they were initially detained for.
- Mutual and simultaneous release ensuring the release of all individuals listed in pre-agreed lists before implementation.
- Improvement of conditions for prisoners in Israeli prisons and lifting measures and sanctions imposed after 7/10/2023.
- Halt of Israeli settler incursions and aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque, returning the situation at Al-Aqsa Mosque to what it was before 2002.
- Intensification of the entry of necessary quantities of humanitarian aid and fuel (not less than 500 trucks) on a daily basis, as well as allowing suitable amounts of humanitarian aid to reach all areas of the Strip, especially the north.
- Return of displaced persons to their homes in all areas of the Strip, ensuring freedom of movement for residents and citizens using all means of transport without hindrance in all Gaza Strip areas, especially from south to north.
- Ensuring the opening of all crossings with Gaza Strip, resumption of trade, allowing freedom of movement for individuals and goods without hindrance.
- Removal of any Israeli restrictions on the movement of passengers, patients, and wounded through the Rafah crossing, ensuring the departure of all wounded individuals, regardless of gender or age, for treatment abroad without restrictions.
- Egypt and Qatar undertake to lead efforts with relevant parties to manage and supervise ensuring the fulfillment of the following: providing sufficient heavy equipment to remove rubble and debris, providing civil defense equipment, health ministry requirements, rebuilding hospitals, bakeries in all sectors, and providing what is necessary to establish camps for residents.
Additionally, the two countries commit to providing no less than 60,000 temporary shelters (caravans/containers), with 15,000 shelters entering Gaza every week from the start of this stage, in addition to 200,000 shelter tents, with a rate of 50,000 tents per week, to accommodate those whose houses were destroyed during the war.
The process of rebuilding the infrastructure in all areas of the Strip, rehabilitating electricity, communications, and water networks, approving a plan to rebuild houses, economic facilities, and public facilities destroyed due to the aggression, and scheduling the reconstruction process within a period not exceeding 3 years.
- Resumption of all humanitarian services provided to residents in all areas of the Strip by the United Nations and its agencies, especially UNRWA, and all international organizations operating to conduct their work in all areas of the Gaza Strip as before 7/10/2023.
- Restoring Gaza’s necessary fuel supplies to re-establish the power generation station and all sectors. The occupation commits to supplying Gaza with its electricity and water needs.
- Initiating (indirect) negotiations on the necessary requirements to continue the mutual cessation of military operations to return to a state of complete and mutual calm.
- The exchange process is closely linked to the extent of fulfilling the agreement on the entry of sufficient aid, relief, and shelter, as mentioned and agreed upon.
The Second Stage of the Agreement
According to Hamas’s response to the intermediaries, during the second stage, negotiations (indirect) must be concluded regarding the necessary requirements to continue the mutual cessation of military operations and return to a state of complete and mutual calm before implementing the second stage.
This stage aims to release all male detainees (civilians and conscripts) in exchange for specific numbers of Palestinian prisoners, continuing humanitarian procedures for the first and second stages, and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the borders of all Gaza Strip areas.
This stage seeks to initiate comprehensive reconstruction of houses, facilities, and infrastructure destroyed in all areas of the Gaza Strip, according to specified mechanisms to ensure implementation, lifting the blockade on the entire Gaza Strip, as agreed upon in the first stage.
The Third Stage of the Agreement
The third stage aims to exchange bodies and remains of the deceased on both sides after identification, continuing humanitarian procedures for the first and second stages, as agreed upon in the first and second stages.
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