CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas stated on Sunday that it rejects new Israeli circumstances put ahead in Gaza ceasefire talks, casting additional doubt on the possibilities of a breakthrough within the newest U.S.-backed effort to finish the 10-month-old warfare.
Months of on-off talks have failed to supply an settlement to finish Israel’s devastating navy marketing campaign in Gaza or free the remaining hostages seized by Hamas within the militant group’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel that triggered the warfare.
Key sticking factors in ongoing talks mediated by america, Egypt and Qatar embody an Israeli presence within the so-called Philadelphi Hall, a slim 14.5 km-long (nine-mile) stretch of land alongside Gaza’s southern border with Egypt.
Hamas stated Israel has backtracked on a dedication to withdraw troops from the Hall and put ahead different new circumstances, together with the screening of displaced Palestinians as they return to the enclave’s extra closely populated north when the ceasefire begins.
“We is not going to settle for discussions about retractions from what we agreed to on July 2 or new circumstances,” Hamas official Osama Hamdan informed the group’s Al-Aqsa TV on Sunday.
In July, Hamas accepted a U.S. proposal to start talks on releasing Israeli hostages, together with troopers and males, 16 days after the primary section of an settlement aimed toward ending the Gaza warfare, a senior Hamas supply has informed Reuters.
Hamdan additionally stated Hamas has handed to mediators its response to the newest proposal, saying U.S. speak of an imminent deal is fake.