The Head of Hamas Abroad, Khaled Meshaal, is trying to convince the United States administration to follow its own “vision” on how to deal with disarmament and its military arsenal – a major sticking point in the second phase of the two-month ceasefire, that Israel has relentlessly violated.Speaking on Al Jazeera Arabic’s Mawazine programme on Wednesday, Meshaal said Hamas aims to “create a situation with guarantees that war does not return between Gaza and the Israeli occupation,” addressing issues such as “how this weapon can be stored, safeguarded, not used, and not displayed”.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of listHe outlined ideas to sustain the fragile ceasefire – which Israel has relentlessly violated – as the first phase, involving prisoner and captive exchanges, comes to an end.Israel has not kept its end of the deal in allowing the free flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave, a violation all the more acute in its genocidal war on Gaza, as hundreds of thousands of people are suffering the brunt of Storm Byron with only makeshift tents for shelter.The more contentious second phase of the ceasefire will address Israeli withdrawal, Palestinian disarmament and the formal end to the war.Meshaal told Al Jazeera that mediators were in dialogue with the US on Hamas’s approach to disarmament, but cautioned that surrendering weapons on the ground would be akin to “removing the soul” of the organisation.He suggested moving to the second phase and adopting Hamas’s disarmame …
