CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas stated on Sunday it rejected new Israeli situations in Gaza cease-fire talks, casting additional doubt on a breakthrough within the newest U.S.-backed effort to finish a 10-month conflict.
Months of on-again, off-again talks have failed to achieve an settlement to finish Israel’s devastating army marketing campaign in Gaza or to launch the remaining hostages held by Hamas within the Oct. 7 assault on Israel that sparked the conflict.
Key sticking factors within the ongoing negotiations brokered by the US, Egypt and Qatar embody Israel’s presence within the so-called Philadelphia Hall, a slender 14.5-kilometer-long (nine-mile) strip of land south of Gaza bordering Egypt.
Hamas stated Israel had canceled its pledge to withdraw troops from the hall and imposed different new situations, together with screening displaced Palestinians returning to the enclave’s densely populated north when a ceasefire begins.
“We is not going to settle for discussions about withdrawing what we agreed to on July 2 or about new situations,” Hamas official Osama Hamdan advised the group’s Al-Aqsa TV station on Sunday.
A senior Hamas supply advised Reuters that Hamas in July accepted a U.S. supply to start negotiations for the discharge of Israeli hostages, together with troopers and males, 16 days after the primary part of a deal geared toward ending the conflict in Gaza. ) to begin negotiations.
Hamdan additionally stated Hamas had submitted its response to the newest proposal to the mediators, saying it was false that the US was near reaching a deal.
