Hamas rejects Israel’s ‘new conditions’ for Gaza ceasefire after round of talks

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Hamas rejected Doha negotiations For one Gaza ceasefireensuring that the information he was given “did not include a commitment to the July 2 agreement,” as he had requested, while the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuaccusing Islamists of insisting on “refusing to reach an agreement.”

Shortly after the announcement of the Qatari capital meeting, the Israeli delegation held two days of meetings with mediators.USA, Egypt yes Qatar— Hamas issued a brief statement calling for a re-implementation of its initial ceasefire proposal but then dropped its demands on the Hebrew State.

The Palestinian terror group, which has de facto ruled Gaza since 2007, did not send a delegation Doha It is the call for the implementation of previously reached agreements, “rather than continuing with a new round of negotiations.”

Netanyahu thanked “the United States and mediators for their efforts to dissuade Hamas from rejecting a deal to release the hostages,” according to a statement from his office.

The mediators announced the end of “constructive” talks in Doha on Friday and said they would continue dialogue in Cairo on a US proposal to “narrow the gap between Israel and Hamas.”

In their joint statement, they assured that the United States had put forward a proposal that “narrows the gap between Israel and Hamas” and is “in line with the principles between Israel and Hamas.” The President of the United States proposed Joe Biden“.

A senior Israeli official assured Channel 13 television that “progress” had been made in the talks, although gaps remained over the management of the Nezarim corridor – the corridor through which Israel divides the north due to the war in southern Gaza. Philadelphia – the border between Gaza and Egypt.

These are the two points where Hamas and Israel have clashed in recent weeks, with the Islamists accusing the Jews of demanding control of the two corridors after the initial proposal.

Hamas has been charging Israel with these demands since late July, when a delegation sent by Benjamin Netanyahu demanded at a meeting with mediators in Rome a mechanism to control the return of Gazans to the northern Gaza Strip to prevent the entry of militias, as well as control of the Philadelphia corridor and intersections. Rafa Preventing the smuggling of weapons from Egypt.

“The July 27 letter does not introduce new provisions. On the contrary, it includes necessary clarifications,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

Indeed, a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office this afternoon said it hoped pressure from the mediators would “produce Hamas to accept the May 27 principles,” also referring to the original US proposal.

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In this sense, each party claims to be the defender of the original proposal and points to the other party as the author of subsequent amendments.

While negotiations in Cairo have entered a new phase to address these gaps, the war in Gaza continues, with more than 40,000 Palestinians killed yesterday, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health.

The Israeli army says it has killed more than 17,000 Palestinian militants since October.