00:00So, the US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said that the most recent round of ceasefire talks in Qatar were cut short because he says that Hamas showed a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire.
00:13That seems quite opposed to what you've been telling us there.
00:17So, is it that the US Special Envoy is lying? Have they viewed things differently to you? Or did Israel just simply change their mind?
00:27First of all, what I say, I am talking based on confidential details and information I am aware of.
00:37Therefore, I am not talking something only for the media.
00:43Second, we have received a clear positive response from the mediators when they have handed over this proposal or this reply to the Israeli delegation.
00:57And they have said it was, it is very constructive, it is positive, we can proceed forward, we can build on this a new ceasefire deal.
01:08Again, unfortunately, Witkoff, this is not the first time, by the way, Witkoff, this is maybe the third or fourth time where he undermined a serious chance to reach a ceasefire agreement.
01:22If you can remember, and your audience, when we have handed over the American-Israeli soldier, Alexander Aydan, where he said publicly,
01:33this will open the door for a new ceasefire agreement, this will enable, or we are going to pressure Israel to allow more aid to come into Gaza and so on and so on.
01:45He also repeated the same thing in another, I mean...
01:48So, can you elaborate on that?
01:50What do you mean by Witkoff undermining, on multiple occasions, the negotiations?
01:58Unfortunately, we have hope that this new American administration, based on what they have announced at the beginning,
02:10that they are planning to de-escalate all these war zones in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Ukraine, and everywhere.
02:22But unfortunately, in our case, we have seen it repeatedly, that they are backing up the position of this racist Israeli government in all forms.
02:38Even sometimes if the cost or the price is to undermine a serious chance to reach a ceasefire.
02:47Look, for example, now we have heard firstly from Witkoff and then from Trump that the negotiations collapsed, that we withdraw from the negotiations,
03:02and we are aware how to deal with Hamas, and we have our own plan.
03:07And later we have started to hear from the Israelis the same language in the same context.
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