Hamas To Take Legal Action Against US Foreign Minister Blinken Regarding 'Marticipation With Israel'

JAKARTA - A senior official of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would be sued for his role in the war in the Gaza Strip.

"His statement is misleading and we don't trust him, and his partnership of crimes against our people will be prosecuted," Hamas polytburo member Osama Hamdan said at a news conference in Algeria, calling Blinken a "mitra in the war of annihilation" quoted from The Times of Israel January 7.

Earlier, in a weekend interview with The New York Times, Foreign Minister Blinken blamed Hamas for failing to reach an agreement to release the hostages.

"What we have seen over and over is Hamas not finalizing the deal he should have completed," said Foreign Minister Blinken.

"Why doesn't there be a unanimous voice around the world for Hamas to put down his gun, give up the hostages, give up I don't know what the answer is. Israel, on various occasions, has offered a safe path for Hamas leaders and fighters to get out of Gaza. Where is the world? Where is the world saying, Yes, do that! End this! Stop the suffering of the people you created!" he said.

Hamdan claims that negotiations with Israel have proven that the only way to achieve rights for Palestine is by force.

"We are determined to stop the aggression and to have the enemy withdraw from the Gaza Strip, so that aid and reconstruction are carried out unconditionally by Israel," Hamdan said.

"We hope this will be achieved as soon as possible," he said.

He called on "national committees" to manage Gaza and "block the path of any corrupt argument seeking to oppress our people."

It is known that ceasefire talks and the release of indirect hostages between Israel and Hamas resumed in Doha, Qatar last week with the mediation of the United States, Qatar and Egypt.

Separately, medical sources in the Gaza Strip confirmed on Tuesday that the death toll in the Palestinian enclave since the new conflict broke out on October 7, 2023 has reached 45,885 people, while injured victims reached 109,196 people, the majority being children and women, quoted from WAFA.