Hakan Fidan has expressed concern about potential actions that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government could take after Israeli captives are released from the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports.

Speaking at a news conference alongside his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, in Ankara, the Turkish foreign minister said he had a meeting in Doha last week with the members of the political bureau of Hamas.

“The Hamas side has no hesitation in fulfilling the terms of the ceasefire agreement. However, there are questions around the world about how the Netanyahu government will behave after the release of Israeli prisoners,” Fidan said, according to Anadolu Agency.

The diplomat also urged the international community to take a unified stance in preventing Netanyahu from restarting what he described as a “genocide” in Gaza for political gain and expressed Turkiye’s rejection of Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” Palestinians from Gaza.

Fidan also confirmed that 15 Palestinian prisoners released as part of the Gaza ceasefire and exchange agreement have arrived in Turkiye.

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