Israel mulls alternatives to ceasefire talks with Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel and the US negotiation teams after remembering the negotiations with Hamas “alternative options” to fire.

Netanyahu’s statement, a Hamas official, said that negotiations are expected to continue next week and described the recall of Israel and American delegations as a tactic of pressure.

Egypt and Qatar, who mediate negotiations with the United States, said that the pause was only temporary and that despite the fact that the talks would continue.

Teams left Qatar on Thursday, President Donald Trump’s special ambassador Steve Witkoff said that Hamas’s final reaction to an agreement suggestions showed a lack of desire to reach the ceasefire.

In a statement published by his office, Netanyahu reflected Witkoff: “Hamas hostage obstacle to the release agreement,” he said.

“Together with our US allies, we are thinking of alternative options to bring our hostages home, to finish Hamas’s terror rule and to secure the lasting peace for Israel and our region.” He said.

The Israeli government did not immediately respond to whether the negotiations would continue next week.

Meanwhile, the leaders of England, France and Germany asked Israel to allow unlimited assistance to Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country would be the first great Western power to recognize a Palestinian state.

Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after a call published after a call, immediately called for a cease -fire, and despite the new diplomatic floor, “the civilian population is unacceptable to hide basic humanitarian aid”, he said.

The leaders said that they were ready to take more action to support a political process that leads to permanent security and peace for the Palestinians, Palestinians and the whole region, but they did not say what this action could be.

Macron’s surprise announcement revealed differences as to how the humanitarian crisis, which worsening the humanitarian crisis between the European allies known as E3, and the end of the Israeli-Hamas war.

All three in principle support a Palestinian state, but Germany said that Macron had no plan to follow the step of France, which Macron plans to formally formally at the United Nations General Assembly.

England did not follow the case, but Starmer is under pressure to officially recognize the Palestinian state of the opposition deputies and members of the Labor Party government.

Health secretary Wes Streeting called for an announcement on Tuesday, “A Palestinian province remained to be recognized”.

On Friday, 221 of the 650 deputies in the House of Commons signed a letter calling Starmer to recognize a Palestinian state.

“We have supported a two -state solution since 1980. We have supported a two -state solution since 1980.” He said.

More than 140 countries recognize a Palestinian state, including a dozen in Europe.

However, France is the first group of seven countries and the largest European country to take this step.

Israel and the US condemned the decision of France.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where hunger spread and children died of hunger, gave alarm even among the closest allies of Israel.

Germany has traditionally became a particularly loyal ally of Israel in Europe with relations based on Holocaust history.

However, Berlin has recently sharpened its tone, described the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza as unacceptable and forced it for greater humanitarian aid.

The German government said on Friday that there was a “continuous change with the Israeli government.

If there is no progress, he said, “Ready to increase the pressure,” but he said how it was not detailed.