“Israel rejects the 15-point document” on Gaza announced by the US, and does not intend to withdraw the IDF from the Strip “until Hamas is effectively disarmed”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this at the opening of today’s cabinet meeting, in his first public statement on the 15-point roadmap presented by the Board of Peace. “As long as I am prime minister, there will be no Palestinian state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Neither ‘Fatahstan’ nor ‘Hamastan,'” he added.
Hamas: “The US must put pressure on Israel to respect the roadmap”
“The United States must put pressure on Israel to accept the next phase of the plan for Gaza. This was stated by a Hamas official to AFP, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel rejects the US-backed agreement. “We expect the mediators and the American guarantor to put pressure on Netanyahu and his government to respect the roadmap and not hinder the process for internal political and electoral reasons,” said Bassem Naim, a member of the political bureau of Hamas.