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🚨 Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that while “the area of withdrawal may be a matter of debate,” it would be “impossible to have a prisoner exchange” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers. “We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators in the current dialogues do not know their locations,” he said. “Therefore, they must withdraw from populated areas. There cannot be an exchange [if the forces remain].” He added that if soldiers don’t withdraw from highly populated residential areas, “it would mean that Israel does not want Trump’s plan to be implemented.” Marzouk said “the first point now must be to define the maps… this will be the main obstacle.”