Netanyahu's 'document of blood' sabotages Gaza ceasefire deal: Report
Six Israeli captives in Gaza would not have been killed if Netanyahu had not issued new demands to the ceasefire deal Israel proposed in May, a senior security official says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the deaths of six Israeli soldiers who were killed while captives of Hamas because he sabotaged a Gaza ceasefire agreement that would have led to their release, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 2 September.
The Hebrew newspaper reported that according to a senior Israeli security official, Israel submitted a proposal for an agreement in May that would have returned the Israeli captives and led to a ceasefire.
However, after Hamas agreed to most of its terms, the Prime Minister decided to back out of the deal. To do so, he ordered a new document to be drafted in July, which included "clarifications" to the first Israeli proposal.
According to the senior security official, the clarifications included major new conditions meant to sabotage any chance of an agreement.
The conditions included the demand that Israeli troops be allowed to continue occupying the Philadelphi Corridor, the strategic strip of land along the Gaza-Egypt border.
Hamas demanded that Israeli troops fully withdraw from Gaza, per the original Israeli proposal, and no agreement was reached.
The document prepared in July outlying Netanyahu's new conditions contained the names of four of the six Israeli captives killed earlier this week. If a deal had been reached, the captives may not have been killed.
"This document is dipped in the blood of the six murdered abductees," the security official said.
"At the top, at the top of the document, it says that it is a 'clarification document,' but in my opinion, the most appropriate nickname for it is the 'blood document,' because its pages are stained with the blood of the six abductees who were murdered in a tunnel in Rafah," he said.
Israel claims Hamas executed the captives with gunshots. Hamas says they were killed by Israeli air strikes.
"The names of four of them are listed in the appendix at the end of the document. If it weren't for the deliberate sabotage contained in the document to prevent a deal - there is a good chance that they would have been released already a month ago and are here with us alive," the security official stated.
When we all thought it was possible to reach an agreement, "the Israeli public was flooded with disinformation, if not actual lies" claiming Hamas had rejected it. "The document was created specifically to prevent this - a kidnapping deal," he said.
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