cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33764214

Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Jul 27, 2025

Basem Naim, another senior #Hamas official, told Drop Site, “#Trump is playing a strategic game of deception,” adding that the #US and #Israel were seeking to increase pressure on Hamas to capitulate. He said Trump’s comments, and similar ones made by Witkoff, were intended to apply “more pressure before the next round” of negotiations and to buy time for Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu “to reorganize the internal situation.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33764214

Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Jul 27, 2025

Basem Naim, another senior #Hamas official, told Drop Site, “#Trump is playing a strategic game of deception,” adding that the #US and #Israel were seeking to increase pressure on Hamas to capitulate. He said Trump’s comments, and similar ones made by Witkoff, were intended to apply “more pressure before the next round” of negotiations and to buy time for Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu “to reorganize the internal situation.”

Trump and Netanyahu threatened to launch even more violent “alternatives” to ceasefire negotiations as Hamas political leader blasts U.S.-Israeli “blackmail."

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250728034400/https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/negotiations-hamas-israel-trump-netanyahu-ceasefire-amendments-hayya-netanyahu

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