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🎧 Drop Site Exclusive Interview | Senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal says Hamas would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if it reflects the will of the Palestinian people and a national consensus, framing the position as a path toward peace in the region. He told Drop Site that Israel has blocked every serious effort to achieve peace and establish a Palestinian state, from Arab initiatives to international diplomacy, and says conditions in Gaza and the West Bank show Israel does not recognize Palestinian rights. Hamas remains prepared to engage any credible regional or international effort that compels Israel to withdraw to the June 1967 borders, including Jerusalem, as the basis for a democratic Palestinian state, Meshaal said, 📍 Interviewed by Drop Site News’ jeremy scahill and Jawa Ahmad in Doha, Qatar, on December 11, 2025. 📄 Full transcript in reply
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🎧 Drop Site Exclusive Interview | Senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal says Hamas would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if it reflects the will of the Palestinian people and a national consensus, framing the position as a path toward peace in the region. He told Drop Site that Israel has blocked every serious effort to achieve peace and establish a Palestinian state, from Arab initiatives to international diplomacy, and says conditions in Gaza and the West Bank show Israel does not recognize Palestinian rights. Hamas remains prepared to engage any credible regional or international effort that compels Israel to withdraw to the June 1967 borders, including Jerusalem, as the basis for a democratic Palestinian state, Meshaal said, 📍 Interviewed by Drop Site News’ jeremy scahill and Jawa Ahmad in Doha, Qatar, on December 11, 2025. 📄 Full transcript in reply

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🎧 Exclusive at Drop Site: Senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas abroad, rejects plans to impose a foreign authority inside Gaza, warning it would simply replace the Israeli occupation with another. Meshaal says Hamas stepped away from governing Gaza more than a year ago to enable a Palestinian-led technocratic administration backed by regional mediators, a process he says Israel has deliberately stalled. He also details Israel’s violations of the first phase of the ceasefire, including blocking aid, restricting shelter and medical access, continuing killings, and expanding territorial control, with the “yellow line” pushed from about 53% to nearly 60% of the Gaza Strip. 📍 Interviewed by Drop Site News’ jeremy scahill and Jawa Ahmad in Doha, Qatar, on December 11, 2025. 📄 Full transcript in reply
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🎧 Exclusive at Drop Site: Senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas abroad, rejects plans to impose a foreign authority inside Gaza, warning it would simply replace the Israeli occupation with another. Meshaal says Hamas stepped away from governing Gaza more than a year ago to enable a Palestinian-led technocratic administration backed by regional mediators, a process he says Israel has deliberately stalled. He also details Israel’s violations of the first phase of the ceasefire, including blocking aid, restricting shelter and medical access, continuing killings, and expanding territorial control, with the “yellow line” pushed from about 53% to nearly 60% of the Gaza Strip. 📍 Interviewed by Drop Site News’ jeremy scahill and Jawa Ahmad in Doha, Qatar, on December 11, 2025. 📄 Full transcript in reply

Drop Site

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🟢 Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal on Resistance and Weapons Placing Palestinian resistance within a broader anti-colonial tradition, senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal said resistance under occupation is “natural.” He recalled a meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in which Carter acknowledged that “we fought the British too.” Meshaal said Palestinians are no different from peoples who resisted colonial rule, including Americans, Europeans, and liberation movements worldwide. The head of Hamas outside Palestine, Meshaal told Drop Site that Hamas rejects forced disarmament but offers what he called “a realistic approach” to security “that includes guarantees.” “We do not want to clash with anyone,” he said, “but we will not accept being forcibly disarmed.” Meshaal said Hamas proposes preserving its weapons without using, displaying, or parading them, “with full seriousness,” pointing to Hamas’s “record of commitment” in past agreements. Hamas also accepts international forces “on the borders as separation forces,” but not inside Gaza “to clash with Palestinians and disarm them,” he added. Hamas also proposed a long-term hudna. “All the periods of calm over the past twenty years—Hamas adhered to them,” Meshaal said, adding that “it was Israel that violated them.” The core problem, he said, is Israel itself: “By its nature it is treacherous… and it is the side that possesses lethal weaponry.”
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🟢 Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal on Resistance and Weapons Placing Palestinian resistance within a broader anti-colonial tradition, senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal said resistance under occupation is “natural.” He recalled a meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in which Carter acknowledged that “we fought the British too.” Meshaal said Palestinians are no different from peoples who resisted colonial rule, including Americans, Europeans, and liberation movements worldwide. The head of Hamas outside Palestine, Meshaal told Drop Site that Hamas rejects forced disarmament but offers what he called “a realistic approach” to security “that includes guarantees.” “We do not want to clash with anyone,” he said, “but we will not accept being forcibly disarmed.” Meshaal said Hamas proposes preserving its weapons without using, displaying, or parading them, “with full seriousness,” pointing to Hamas’s “record of commitment” in past agreements. Hamas also accepts international forces “on the borders as separation forces,” but not inside Gaza “to clash with Palestinians and disarm them,” he added. Hamas also proposed a long-term hudna. “All the periods of calm over the past twenty years—Hamas adhered to them,” Meshaal said, adding that “it was Israel that violated them.” The core problem, he said, is Israel itself: “By its nature it is treacherous… and it is the side that possesses lethal weaponry.”

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🟢 NEW | Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal on Resistance Weapons & Security Speaking at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Sunday, Feb. 8, Hamas political leader abroad Khaled Meshaal reiterated an offer for a truce of up to 10 years with Israel, while rejecting claims that Palestinian disarmament is an “international demand,” calling it an Israeli dictate being pushed onto Washington and echoed by parts of the international system. Meshaal said calls to disarm Palestinians while occupation continues would leave Gaza defenseless against Israel’s overwhelming military power and exterminationist agenda. He acknowledged the need for a pragmatic post-war framework to enable reconstruction and prevent a return to fighting, but explained that it could not be built on total disarmament. Meshaal said Hamas has instead engaged through mediators Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt, and via indirect channels with the United States, around an alternative security approach based on several “guarantees,” reiterating a proposal he also outlined in an interview with Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad (see post in reply). He said an understanding has already been reached with the three mediators on this issue and that they are “attempting to promote that to the Americans,” adding that peace can only be advanced “away from Israeli pressure and blackmail.” As part of that framework, Meshaal said Hamas has offered a long-term truce of “five, seven, up to ten years.” The approach is based on additional guarantees, including the presence of international forces on the borders to “keep peace and prevent clashes,” and the role of regional mediators with deep ties to Hamas to guarantee the peace. Resistance weapons during this period would be “not used and not displayed,” he added. Meshaal stressed that Israel’s real concern is not with its security. It is seeking to confiscate Palestinian weapons and place them in the hands of proxy militias in Gaza to fuel assassinations and internal chaos, he pointed out. The real threat is Israel, not a devastated Gaza that will take a long time simply to recover after 2+ year-long war of annihilation, he said, pushing back on claims of an international consensus on this issue of weapons: “If the world wants to wake up, the most important thing is that the American administration, Europeans, and international forces deal with the Palestinian cause through an objective vision, not through the Israeli eye.”
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🟢 NEW | Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal on Resistance Weapons & Security Speaking at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Sunday, Feb. 8, Hamas political leader abroad Khaled Meshaal reiterated an offer for a truce of up to 10 years with Israel, while rejecting claims that Palestinian disarmament is an “international demand,” calling it an Israeli dictate being pushed onto Washington and echoed by parts of the international system. Meshaal said calls to disarm Palestinians while occupation continues would leave Gaza defenseless against Israel’s overwhelming military power and exterminationist agenda. He acknowledged the need for a pragmatic post-war framework to enable reconstruction and prevent a return to fighting, but explained that it could not be built on total disarmament. Meshaal said Hamas has instead engaged through mediators Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt, and via indirect channels with the United States, around an alternative security approach based on several “guarantees,” reiterating a proposal he also outlined in an interview with Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad (see post in reply). He said an understanding has already been reached with the three mediators on this issue and that they are “attempting to promote that to the Americans,” adding that peace can only be advanced “away from Israeli pressure and blackmail.” As part of that framework, Meshaal said Hamas has offered a long-term truce of “five, seven, up to ten years.” The approach is based on additional guarantees, including the presence of international forces on the borders to “keep peace and prevent clashes,” and the role of regional mediators with deep ties to Hamas to guarantee the peace. Resistance weapons during this period would be “not used and not displayed,” he added. Meshaal stressed that Israel’s real concern is not with its security. It is seeking to confiscate Palestinian weapons and place them in the hands of proxy militias in Gaza to fuel assassinations and internal chaos, he pointed out. The real threat is Israel, not a devastated Gaza that will take a long time simply to recover after 2+ year-long war of annihilation, he said, pushing back on claims of an international consensus on this issue of weapons: “If the world wants to wake up, the most important thing is that the American administration, Europeans, and international forces deal with the Palestinian cause through an objective vision, not through the Israeli eye.”

Drop Site

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🎥 “Trump is dealing with us as if we have to accept this plan based on the well-known English phrase: Take it or leave it. This is unacceptable in political practice. It cannot be a matter of either accepting or rejecting an agreement outright,” Mohammad Nazzal, veteran Hamas official and longtime member of its political bureau, told Drop Site’s jeremy scahill in an interview. “This plan was formulated without the participation of Hamas or any Palestinian party, including the Palestinian Authority. So how can the U.S. administration reach an agreement with one side of the conflict while excluding the Palestinian side?” He said Hamas is carefully reviewing the document and would soon offer its official response. “We are approaching the plan with a high degree of responsibility and objectivity. We began studying it and holding consultations as soon as we received it.” — 📖 Read Jeremy Scahill’s full report: How Hamas Is Navigating Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum (Drop Site News)
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🎥 “Trump is dealing with us as if we have to accept this plan based on the well-known English phrase: Take it or leave it. This is unacceptable in political practice. It cannot be a matter of either accepting or rejecting an agreement outright,” Mohammad Nazzal, veteran Hamas official and longtime member of its political bureau, told Drop Site’s jeremy scahill in an interview. “This plan was formulated without the participation of Hamas or any Palestinian party, including the Palestinian Authority. So how can the U.S. administration reach an agreement with one side of the conflict while excluding the Palestinian side?” He said Hamas is carefully reviewing the document and would soon offer its official response. “We are approaching the plan with a high degree of responsibility and objectivity. We began studying it and holding consultations as soon as we received it.” — 📖 Read Jeremy Scahill’s full report: How Hamas Is Navigating Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum (Drop Site News)

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THREAD: 🔽 Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad report that for the first time in over a month, there are signs of revived U.S. efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza, spurred by the recent ceasefire between Iran and Israel. President Trump voiced optimism, claiming “great progress” was being made. Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American acting as an informal envoy for the Trump administration, told Egypt’s Al Ghad that a ceasefire could be “achieved within days.” However, sources in the Palestinian negotiating team told Drop Site that while Hamas continues to engage with mediators, no senior officials have recently met with Bahbah or any U.S. officials, nor have there been any substantive steps toward achieving a deal. Here’s more of what Trump’s Envoy discussed in his interview earlier this week: 🧵
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THREAD: 🔽 Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad report that for the first time in over a month, there are signs of revived U.S. efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza, spurred by the recent ceasefire between Iran and Israel. President Trump voiced optimism, claiming “great progress” was being made. Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American acting as an informal envoy for the Trump administration, told Egypt’s Al Ghad that a ceasefire could be “achieved within days.” However, sources in the Palestinian negotiating team told Drop Site that while Hamas continues to engage with mediators, no senior officials have recently met with Bahbah or any U.S. officials, nor have there been any substantive steps toward achieving a deal. Here’s more of what Trump’s Envoy discussed in his interview earlier this week: 🧵

Drop Site

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🔴 WATCH | Palestinian resistance leaders have an offer on “disarmament” that would guarantee Israel’s security. Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill, who spoke in person with senior figures from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Doha just days ago, says the resistance has presented a detailed technical plan for Gaza’s security and governance. Under the proposal, Hamas would step aside as the governing authority and support an independent technocratic Palestinian committee. A non-partisan Palestinian police force, trained with international involvement, would be the sole authority on Gaza’s streets and the only entity permitted to carry weapons. Resistance arms would be stored and would not appear publicly. Anyone caught carrying an unauthorized weapon could be arrested. Scahill says senior Palestinian resistance figures told him the remaining arsenal consists primarily of a massively depleted collection of light arms, which would not appear on Gaza’s streets. Those, and the so-called “heavy” weapons, which include an “almost entirely depleted” rocket capability, resistance leaders say they are willing to discuss with negotiators. The proposal includes an internationally overseen long-term ceasefire (hudna) of 5–10 years and allows for an international stabilization force, so long as it is not tasked with enforcing disarmament. The centerpiece of the deal is what Scahill calls “the collateral.” The hudna would be formally signed by Hamas and endorsed by regional mediators, including Qatar, Egypt, and Türkiye, and overseen internationally. If Hamas violated it, that backing would collapse, effectively guaranteeing war with Israel, but one with the political and diplomatic support of Arab and Islamic states. Breaking the deal and threatening Israel would be strategically suicidal for Palestinian groups under such a deal, the Palestinian leaders told Scahill. If Israel’s concern is security, this achieves it. If Israel insists on counting every knife in every home, as senior Hamas figure Mousa Abu Marzouk put it, then security was never the issue to begin with. Then the goal was subjugation. And across every conversation Jeremy Scahill and his Drop Site colleague Jawa Ahmad had with Palestinian resistance figures, over the past several months, there was one position of absolute consensus: the Palestinians will never surrender. jeremy scahill | Drop Site
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🔴 WATCH | Palestinian resistance leaders have an offer on “disarmament” that would guarantee Israel’s security. Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill, who spoke in person with senior figures from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Doha just days ago, says the resistance has presented a detailed technical plan for Gaza’s security and governance. Under the proposal, Hamas would step aside as the governing authority and support an independent technocratic Palestinian committee. A non-partisan Palestinian police force, trained with international involvement, would be the sole authority on Gaza’s streets and the only entity permitted to carry weapons. Resistance arms would be stored and would not appear publicly. Anyone caught carrying an unauthorized weapon could be arrested. Scahill says senior Palestinian resistance figures told him the remaining arsenal consists primarily of a massively depleted collection of light arms, which would not appear on Gaza’s streets. Those, and the so-called “heavy” weapons, which include an “almost entirely depleted” rocket capability, resistance leaders say they are willing to discuss with negotiators. The proposal includes an internationally overseen long-term ceasefire (hudna) of 5–10 years and allows for an international stabilization force, so long as it is not tasked with enforcing disarmament. The centerpiece of the deal is what Scahill calls “the collateral.” The hudna would be formally signed by Hamas and endorsed by regional mediators, including Qatar, Egypt, and Türkiye, and overseen internationally. If Hamas violated it, that backing would collapse, effectively guaranteeing war with Israel, but one with the political and diplomatic support of Arab and Islamic states. Breaking the deal and threatening Israel would be strategically suicidal for Palestinian groups under such a deal, the Palestinian leaders told Scahill. If Israel’s concern is security, this achieves it. If Israel insists on counting every knife in every home, as senior Hamas figure Mousa Abu Marzouk put it, then security was never the issue to begin with. Then the goal was subjugation. And across every conversation Jeremy Scahill and his Drop Site colleague Jawa Ahmad had with Palestinian resistance figures, over the past several months, there was one position of absolute consensus: the Palestinians will never surrender. jeremy scahill | Drop Site

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Breaking: Qatar says it is “content with the security assurances” offered in the call with Trump and Netanyahu, stating “under the guarantee of the U.S. president… Qatar will never be attacked again.” The MFA spokesman added that Qatar is keeping open the option of legal action at the ICC and ICJ. However, Drop Site’s jeremy scahill and Jawa Ahmad reported that, according to two Arab diplomatic sources, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told officials in Qatar the U.S. could make no such guarantee as long as Hamas was allowed to operate there. A State Department spokesperson declined to confirm or deny what the sources told Drop Site.
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Breaking: Qatar says it is “content with the security assurances” offered in the call with Trump and Netanyahu, stating “under the guarantee of the U.S. president… Qatar will never be attacked again.” The MFA spokesman added that Qatar is keeping open the option of legal action at the ICC and ICJ. However, Drop Site’s jeremy scahill and Jawa Ahmad reported that, according to two Arab diplomatic sources, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told officials in Qatar the U.S. could make no such guarantee as long as Hamas was allowed to operate there. A State Department spokesperson declined to confirm or deny what the sources told Drop Site.

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NEW: Ceasefire Talks Continue in Doha as Israel Proposes New Deployment Maps Israel’s Channel 13 claims that intensified ‘proximity talks’ between Hamas and Israel have resumed on Monday in Doha. Hamas negotiators told Drop Site Netanyahu is publicly paying lip service to a deal in order to “buy time” and eventually blame Hamas for failure—while continuing his scorched-earth campaign in Gaza. A senior Hamas official told Drop Site that the group will not accept an agreement that allows continued IDF presence in Gaza or maintains current aid “death trap” systems. “This offer will not be acceptable to us,” said Hamas official Basem Naim. “The movement insists on an agreement that leads to a cessation of the war, the withdrawal of hostile forces, and the allowance of aid entry.” Here are today’s latest developments: ➤ Israeli Channel 13 reported Monday that the new round of talks in Doha include Israel’s submission of updated troop deployment maps. An Israeli source reportedly told the outlet the discussions are now being held with “increased urgency.” ➤ In a statement, Hamas said: “Netanyahu is adept at thwarting one round of negotiations after another and does not want to reach any agreement… The longer the war continues, the more the occupation army sinks into the quicksand of Gaza and becomes more vulnerable to the resistance’s qualitative strikes.” ➤ Hamas negotiators told Drop Site News today that Israel’s delegation arrived with a mandate from Netanyahu to demand total capitulation — including Gaza’s full demilitarization and the exile of Hamas leaders. These conditions don’t appear in the Trump-backed ceasefire framework, which for two weeks, Netanyahu has continued to undermine publicly. ➤ According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, a senior Israeli official said that Israel has agreed to make “additional concessions regarding the extent of its military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip” as part of efforts to reach a captive exchange and ceasefire agreement. ➤The updated Israeli maps propose IDF forces remain in a corridor north of the Philadelphi Corridor (along Gaza’s border with Egypt) in an area about half the size that Israel’s original position called for. ➤ Saudi outlet Al-Hadath reports that mediators today reviewed the maps with the Israeli delegation in an effort to narrow gaps with Hamas. The Palestinian resistance movement has not publicly confirmed whether it has received the new maps. ➤ A Palestinian source told Al-Hadath that Egypt’s Intelligence Minister was expected to join the Doha talks, signaling deeper regional involvement in the negotiations. ➤ The same source claimed a key Hamas demand remains a full Israeli withdrawal from the Morag axis. The group, he said, calls this pullout “essential for completing the agreement.” ➤ A source familiar with the indirect talks between Israel and Hamas reportedly told AFP on Monday that mediators are exploring “innovative mechanisms” to “narrow the remaining gaps” between the two negotiating teams in Doha. ➤ A senior Hamas leader told Drop Site that, in the absence of a deal, intensifying the armed insurgency against Israeli forces in Gaza would be “the only effective way of dealing with all their plans.” ➤ Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, speaking on an Israeli podcast, reaffirmed Israel’s red line: “The minimum requirement is that Hamas doesn’t control Gaza. You can add emigration or annexation — but that’s the baseline and we will not retreat from it.” ➤ Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) reports that U.S. officials told Israeli hostage families that Netanyahu persuaded Trump to give him another week to strike a deal — effectively buying time to reach the end of Israel’s summer Knesset session. Trump, the report said, is growing tired of the war: “It is unclear what [Netanyahu] ‘paid’ in return, but the evidence is that [U.S. envoy] Witkoff has not yet arrived in Doha to finalize the matter.” 📎 Read the full Drop Site report 👇🏼
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NEW: Ceasefire Talks Continue in Doha as Israel Proposes New Deployment Maps Israel’s Channel 13 claims that intensified ‘proximity talks’ between Hamas and Israel have resumed on Monday in Doha. Hamas negotiators told Drop Site Netanyahu is publicly paying lip service to a deal in order to “buy time” and eventually blame Hamas for failure—while continuing his scorched-earth campaign in Gaza. A senior Hamas official told Drop Site that the group will not accept an agreement that allows continued IDF presence in Gaza or maintains current aid “death trap” systems. “This offer will not be acceptable to us,” said Hamas official Basem Naim. “The movement insists on an agreement that leads to a cessation of the war, the withdrawal of hostile forces, and the allowance of aid entry.” Here are today’s latest developments: ➤ Israeli Channel 13 reported Monday that the new round of talks in Doha include Israel’s submission of updated troop deployment maps. An Israeli source reportedly told the outlet the discussions are now being held with “increased urgency.” ➤ In a statement, Hamas said: “Netanyahu is adept at thwarting one round of negotiations after another and does not want to reach any agreement… The longer the war continues, the more the occupation army sinks into the quicksand of Gaza and becomes more vulnerable to the resistance’s qualitative strikes.” ➤ Hamas negotiators told Drop Site News today that Israel’s delegation arrived with a mandate from Netanyahu to demand total capitulation — including Gaza’s full demilitarization and the exile of Hamas leaders. These conditions don’t appear in the Trump-backed ceasefire framework, which for two weeks, Netanyahu has continued to undermine publicly. ➤ According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, a senior Israeli official said that Israel has agreed to make “additional concessions regarding the extent of its military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip” as part of efforts to reach a captive exchange and ceasefire agreement. ➤The updated Israeli maps propose IDF forces remain in a corridor north of the Philadelphi Corridor (along Gaza’s border with Egypt) in an area about half the size that Israel’s original position called for. ➤ Saudi outlet Al-Hadath reports that mediators today reviewed the maps with the Israeli delegation in an effort to narrow gaps with Hamas. The Palestinian resistance movement has not publicly confirmed whether it has received the new maps. ➤ A Palestinian source told Al-Hadath that Egypt’s Intelligence Minister was expected to join the Doha talks, signaling deeper regional involvement in the negotiations. ➤ The same source claimed a key Hamas demand remains a full Israeli withdrawal from the Morag axis. The group, he said, calls this pullout “essential for completing the agreement.” ➤ A source familiar with the indirect talks between Israel and Hamas reportedly told AFP on Monday that mediators are exploring “innovative mechanisms” to “narrow the remaining gaps” between the two negotiating teams in Doha. ➤ A senior Hamas leader told Drop Site that, in the absence of a deal, intensifying the armed insurgency against Israeli forces in Gaza would be “the only effective way of dealing with all their plans.” ➤ Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, speaking on an Israeli podcast, reaffirmed Israel’s red line: “The minimum requirement is that Hamas doesn’t control Gaza. You can add emigration or annexation — but that’s the baseline and we will not retreat from it.” ➤ Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) reports that U.S. officials told Israeli hostage families that Netanyahu persuaded Trump to give him another week to strike a deal — effectively buying time to reach the end of Israel’s summer Knesset session. Trump, the report said, is growing tired of the war: “It is unclear what [Netanyahu] ‘paid’ in return, but the evidence is that [U.S. envoy] Witkoff has not yet arrived in Doha to finalize the matter.” 📎 Read the full Drop Site report 👇🏼

Drop Site

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“I have never in my quarter of a century in journalism seen a greater effort to criminalize and demonize speaking to people on the other side of America’s wars.” —Drop Site’s jeremy scahill spoke to Progressive International’s Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla about Drop Site News being labeled “pro-terrorism” for interviewing Palestinian and Iranian figures. He said that in any society that professes to be democratic, a public has the right to understand the other side of things.
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“I have never in my quarter of a century in journalism seen a greater effort to criminalize and demonize speaking to people on the other side of America’s wars.” —Drop Site’s jeremy scahill spoke to Progressive International’s Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla about Drop Site News being labeled “pro-terrorism” for interviewing Palestinian and Iranian figures. He said that in any society that professes to be democratic, a public has the right to understand the other side of things.

Drop Site

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🔵🎥 WATCH: UNICEF credits Palestinian police with securing aid delivery in Gaza Ted Chaiban, deputy executive director of UNICEF, said the presence of Gaza’s “blue police” has helped stabilize aid delivery, saying that with officers stationed at checkpoints, looting, which was a major concern weeks ago, “is no longer a concern right now.” Chaiban was referring to the Palestinian Civil Police (al-Shurta al-Madaniyya), long maligned by Israel and the U.S. as “Hamas-run” and systematically targeted during the war. Gaza’s Interior Ministry says roughly 15 percent of the 17,000 member force has been killed, with officers systematically targeted while guarding humanitarian aid convoys and confronting Israel-backed looting gangs. The comments come as Reuters reported today that Hamas is seeking to incorporate Gaza’s police force into a new U.S.-backed technocratic administration (NCAG), a move Israel reportedly opposes as governance and disarmament discussions continue. At the unveiling of his “master plan” for Gaza on Thursday, Jared Kushner said Hamas members would be offered “amnesty and reintegration, or safe passage,” with a vetted subset eligible to join a reconstituted police force. Senior Hamas officials have warned against dismantling Gaza’s security institutions. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site News’ Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad in December that repeating the U.S. decision to dissolve Iraq’s state and security forces after 2003—de-Baathification—would invite chaos. Even Donald Trump has acknowledged the lesson. Explaining why his administration did not pursue the dismantling of Venezuela’s security institutions, Trump cited Iraq as a case where firing the police and army helped give rise to ISIS.
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🔵🎥 WATCH: UNICEF credits Palestinian police with securing aid delivery in Gaza Ted Chaiban, deputy executive director of UNICEF, said the presence of Gaza’s “blue police” has helped stabilize aid delivery, saying that with officers stationed at checkpoints, looting, which was a major concern weeks ago, “is no longer a concern right now.” Chaiban was referring to the Palestinian Civil Police (al-Shurta al-Madaniyya), long maligned by Israel and the U.S. as “Hamas-run” and systematically targeted during the war. Gaza’s Interior Ministry says roughly 15 percent of the 17,000 member force has been killed, with officers systematically targeted while guarding humanitarian aid convoys and confronting Israel-backed looting gangs. The comments come as Reuters reported today that Hamas is seeking to incorporate Gaza’s police force into a new U.S.-backed technocratic administration (NCAG), a move Israel reportedly opposes as governance and disarmament discussions continue. At the unveiling of his “master plan” for Gaza on Thursday, Jared Kushner said Hamas members would be offered “amnesty and reintegration, or safe passage,” with a vetted subset eligible to join a reconstituted police force. Senior Hamas officials have warned against dismantling Gaza’s security institutions. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site News’ Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad in December that repeating the U.S. decision to dissolve Iraq’s state and security forces after 2003—de-Baathification—would invite chaos. Even Donald Trump has acknowledged the lesson. Explaining why his administration did not pursue the dismantling of Venezuela’s security institutions, Trump cited Iraq as a case where firing the police and army helped give rise to ISIS.

Drop Site

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Jeremy Scahill told Democracy Now that while Biden and Harris let Netanyahu “repeatedly sabotage ceasefires,” Trump approached Gaza as a “transactional” deal-maker whose ego and financial interests drove him to seek a truce. After allowing Netanyahu to blow up the January ceasefire in March, talks revived in August when Hamas, Scahill said, accepted 98% of U.S.-Israeli terms. Instead of finalizing the deal, Israel — with Trump’s knowledge — launched assassination strikes on Hamas negotiators in Qatar. “For 77 years,” Scahill said, “Israel has been constantly assassinating any Palestinian willing to make a deal. And people around the world should be asking: why? ”
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Jeremy Scahill told Democracy Now that while Biden and Harris let Netanyahu “repeatedly sabotage ceasefires,” Trump approached Gaza as a “transactional” deal-maker whose ego and financial interests drove him to seek a truce. After allowing Netanyahu to blow up the January ceasefire in March, talks revived in August when Hamas, Scahill said, accepted 98% of U.S.-Israeli terms. Instead of finalizing the deal, Israel — with Trump’s knowledge — launched assassination strikes on Hamas negotiators in Qatar. “For 77 years,” Scahill said, “Israel has been constantly assassinating any Palestinian willing to make a deal. And people around the world should be asking: why? ”

Drop Site

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“There’s a very dire situation happening when it comes to who speaks for the Palestinians,” jeremy scahill told Drop Site Live. “No matter how much servitude Abbas engages in, no matter how weak and decrepit the PA is, it’s still too Palestinian for the Israelis.” He said Israel and the US have long blocked any unified Palestinian leadership, with the PA often serving as a “veneer of legitimacy” for their plans — including with the new U.N. Security Council resolution. Scahill notes Yahya Sinwar tried in 2017 to broker a deal for the PA to return and take power in Gaza, but Abbas backed off under US and Israeli pressure. And he stressed this isn’t about Hamas alone: the most popular national figure remains Marwan Barghouti, whose legitimacy threatens both Israel and Abbas.
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“There’s a very dire situation happening when it comes to who speaks for the Palestinians,” jeremy scahill told Drop Site Live. “No matter how much servitude Abbas engages in, no matter how weak and decrepit the PA is, it’s still too Palestinian for the Israelis.” He said Israel and the US have long blocked any unified Palestinian leadership, with the PA often serving as a “veneer of legitimacy” for their plans — including with the new U.N. Security Council resolution. Scahill notes Yahya Sinwar tried in 2017 to broker a deal for the PA to return and take power in Gaza, but Abbas backed off under US and Israeli pressure. And he stressed this isn’t about Hamas alone: the most popular national figure remains Marwan Barghouti, whose legitimacy threatens both Israel and Abbas.

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Hamas’s Desired End State & Two-State Solution Hamas officials told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that the group’s preferred long-term vision is a single democratic state across all of historic Palestine—a vision they describe as a rejection of ethno-supremacy, not a call for expulsion or exclusion. It stands in stark contrast to Israel’s “explicitly genocidal end state,” which Jeremy described as a plan where “Palestinians must either bend the knee and live as indentured servants under a religious supremacist regime, or be forced off their land, or be dead.” As Jeremy put it, summarizing how Hamas officials framed their vision: “We’re not telling Jewish people that they need to leave. We’re not trying to create a religious supremacist ethnostate. We want democracy. We want democracy from the river to the sea. That’s the position.” In his meetings with senior Hamas officials—including Osama Hamdan—Jeremy also raised the question of a two-state solution. He said he expected Hamas to reject it outright, given decades of displacement, land theft, and Israel’s long record of undermining Palestinian statehood. But Hamdan told him Hamas would not oppose a two-state deal based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, if it reflected the will of the Palestinian people and came with international guarantees of full sovereignty and equal rights. Jeremy noted that while many Palestinians now view Israel as having created a single apartheid regime, Hamas’s position is that “if Palestinians support a two-state framework, we will not stand in the way.” The discussion took place on Drop Site’s livestream with journalists Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Murtaza Hussain. The full livestream is available at the link below. jeremy scahill | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Murtaza Hussain
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Hamas’s Desired End State & Two-State Solution Hamas officials told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that the group’s preferred long-term vision is a single democratic state across all of historic Palestine—a vision they describe as a rejection of ethno-supremacy, not a call for expulsion or exclusion. It stands in stark contrast to Israel’s “explicitly genocidal end state,” which Jeremy described as a plan where “Palestinians must either bend the knee and live as indentured servants under a religious supremacist regime, or be forced off their land, or be dead.” As Jeremy put it, summarizing how Hamas officials framed their vision: “We’re not telling Jewish people that they need to leave. We’re not trying to create a religious supremacist ethnostate. We want democracy. We want democracy from the river to the sea. That’s the position.” In his meetings with senior Hamas officials—including Osama Hamdan—Jeremy also raised the question of a two-state solution. He said he expected Hamas to reject it outright, given decades of displacement, land theft, and Israel’s long record of undermining Palestinian statehood. But Hamdan told him Hamas would not oppose a two-state deal based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, if it reflected the will of the Palestinian people and came with international guarantees of full sovereignty and equal rights. Jeremy noted that while many Palestinians now view Israel as having created a single apartheid regime, Hamas’s position is that “if Palestinians support a two-state framework, we will not stand in the way.” The discussion took place on Drop Site’s livestream with journalists Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Murtaza Hussain. The full livestream is available at the link below. jeremy scahill | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Murtaza Hussain

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🎥 WATCH: Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill highlighted his new exclusive report with colleague Jawa Ahmad, featuring remarks from senior Hamas official Basem Naim, whom they interviewed about the latest U.S. and Israeli demands for disarmament. Trump and Netanyahu are now demanding full demilitarization, with Netanyahu threatening a return to “full scale war” if even rifles remain. Naim told Drop Site the resistance’s position is unchanged: no unilateral disarmament, and no demilitarization outside a political process that leads to the establishment of a Palestinian state and a national armed force capable of defending it. Scahill also detailed the “pervasive lie” espoused by many Western officials and media outlets that Hamas agreed to Trump’s sweeping 20-point plan or to demilitarize. He noted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad only signed a narrow October agreement covering a captive exchange, cessation of fire agreement, limited Israeli withdrawal, and the resumption of life essentials into Gaza. jeremy scahill | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس
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🎥 WATCH: Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill highlighted his new exclusive report with colleague Jawa Ahmad, featuring remarks from senior Hamas official Basem Naim, whom they interviewed about the latest U.S. and Israeli demands for disarmament. Trump and Netanyahu are now demanding full demilitarization, with Netanyahu threatening a return to “full scale war” if even rifles remain. Naim told Drop Site the resistance’s position is unchanged: no unilateral disarmament, and no demilitarization outside a political process that leads to the establishment of a Palestinian state and a national armed force capable of defending it. Scahill also detailed the “pervasive lie” espoused by many Western officials and media outlets that Hamas agreed to Trump’s sweeping 20-point plan or to demilitarize. He noted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad only signed a narrow October agreement covering a captive exchange, cessation of fire agreement, limited Israeli withdrawal, and the resumption of life essentials into Gaza. jeremy scahill | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس

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🟪 In an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher, senior Hamas official and member of the negotiating team, Dr. Ghazi Hamad accused the U.S. of echoing Israeli talking points and using ceasefire talks to prolong war and starvation in Gaza. He rejected any disarmament outside the context of a full Israeli withdrawal and the creation of a Palestinian state, calling resistance a legal and moral right. Hamad also defended the October 7 attack as a historic turning point that revealed Israel’s true face and revived global attention to the Palestinian cause. Full translated video and transcript below. 👇🏼
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🟪 In an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher, senior Hamas official and member of the negotiating team, Dr. Ghazi Hamad accused the U.S. of echoing Israeli talking points and using ceasefire talks to prolong war and starvation in Gaza. He rejected any disarmament outside the context of a full Israeli withdrawal and the creation of a Palestinian state, calling resistance a legal and moral right. Hamad also defended the October 7 attack as a historic turning point that revealed Israel’s true face and revived global attention to the Palestinian cause. Full translated video and transcript below. 👇🏼

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23,725 views • 11 months ago