Mohammad Al-Hindi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, declared that the Palestinian resistance has received no new proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera, Al-Hindi exposed the hollow nature of so-called negotiations. He explained that discussions mediated by U.S. envoy Steve Wittkoff were never serious, with Washington and Tel Aviv repeatedly retracting even the limited proposals previously offered. At one point, Al-Hindi revealed, the Israeli military even bombed a negotiation delegation while talks were taking place — a stark demonstration of Israel’s contempt for peace efforts.

According to Al-Hindi, Wittkoff himself later withdrew proposals that the resistance had already accepted, showing the duplicity of American diplomacy. “The path is blocked,” he said, “because the U.S. and Israel are not interested in peace. Their project is to erase the resistance entirely.”

Al-Hindi also dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated claims about achieving “victory as a path to peace,” describing them as recycled propaganda. For two years, Netanyahu has vowed to crush the resistance but has failed to achieve any strategic victory beyond the devastation of Gaza and attempts to forcibly displace its people.

He accused Netanyahu of dragging the entire region into chaos, noting that Israel has bombed five Arab capitals in recent years. This, he said, has exposed the criminal reality of the Zionist regime not only to the people of the region but also to its Western backers, many of whom now openly acknowledge Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Al-Hindi pointed to recent recognitions of a Palestinian state by Western countries as a direct consequence of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. While describing these recognitions as a diplomatic defeat for Israel, he cautioned that they must go beyond symbolic gestures.

“The two-state solution has been on the table since Oslo in 1994 and the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002,” he said. “But it was never taken seriously until Israel’s crimes in Gaza forced the world to act.”

He warned that recognitions are meaningless if they do not translate into action to stop Israel’s massacres, destruction, and relentless settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. Al-Hindi urged both Western and Arab states to rethink their normalization policies with Israel and to reassess their political, security, and economic ties with the occupation.

Al-Hindi stressed that the horrifying scenes from Gaza — flattened neighborhoods, massacred families, and starving children — are not accidental byproducts of war but deliberate acts of genocide aimed at displacing Palestinians.

“This is not about defeating the resistance,” he said. “It is about uprooting our people from their land.”

He argued that from the very beginning of the war, the U.S. and its allies decided to eliminate all movements resisting Western hegemony, not only Hamas or Islamic Jihad but any force standing against the occupation in Palestine or the broader region.

Al-Hindi credited the mobilization of freedom advocates across Europe and the Global South for pressuring governments to recognize Palestine, yet he insisted that true solidarity requires concrete steps.

“Recognition must not be used to pacify public anger,” he said. “It must come with decisive measures — ending military cooperation with Israel, halting arms sales, and dismantling normalization agreements.”

He concluded with a powerful warning: “Stopping the war is the only real test of these recognitions. The balance of power, not empty words, will decide our future. Regional states must finally reassess their ties with this criminal occupation.”(ILKHA)