Hamas Says It’s Ready For A Ceasefire But Wants A Complete End To The Gaza War
CAIRO (AP) -Hamas proposed that it was open to a ceasefire agreement with Israel, but he stopped accepting a US-backed proposal announced by US President Donald Trump hours ago and insisted on the end of any agreement in the long-standing position. War in Gaza.
Trump called on Tuesday that Israel has accepted the 60 -day cease -fire conditions in Gaza and called Hamas to accept the agreement without worsening. The US leader Israel government and Hamas are increasing pressure on the ceasefire and hostage agreement and the end of the war.
Trump said he would try to end the war of the 60-day period-he said he would not accept Israel until Hamas was defeated. He said an agreement could come together next week.
However, Hamas’s response to the end of the war, the response, the latest proposal in the struggle to enter a real pause of questions brought to the agenda.
Hamas official Taher Al-Nunu said that the militant group was “ready and serious about reaching an agreement”.
Hamas said that “the war is ready to accept any attempt that leads to the end of the war”.
According to an Egyptian official, a Hamas delegation is expected to meet with Egyptian and Qatar intermediaries in Cairo on Wednesday. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to discuss negotiations with the media.
Israel and Hamas do not agree with how the war should end
During the 21 -month war, the cease -fire talks between Israel and Hamas drowned over and over again as to whether the war would end as a part of any agreement.
Hamas said that Israel was willing to release the 50 hostages that are said to be survival in exchange for a complete withdrawal of Gaza and the end of the war.
Israel says that the war will only end the surrender of Hamas, disarmament and exiles, if there is something that the group refuses to do.
An Israeli official said the last proposal required a 60 -day agreement with the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to the region. Authorized, mediators and the United States will provide assurance about the negotiations in the end of the war, but Israel has not committed it as part of the last proposal.
The authority was not authorized to discuss the details of the proposed agreement with the media, so he spoke on condition of anonymity.
It was not clear how many hostages would be released as part of the agreement, but previous offers called for about 10 release.
Israel has not yet commented on the public about Trump’s announcement. Trump will host the Israeli Prime Minister on Monday Benjamin Netanyahu Ron Dermer, a senior Netanyahu adviser for the talks at the White House, had negotiations with US officials on Gaza, Iran and other issues.
Trump gives another warning
On Tuesday, Trump wrote on social media that Israel has accepted the necessary conditions to conclude the 60 -day ceasefire, and we will work with all parties to end the war during this time ..
“I hope that Hamas gets this agreement for the good of the Middle East, because it won’t be better – it will just get worse,” he said.
Trump’s warning can find a skeptical audience with Hamas. Even before the end of the longest ceasefire of the war in March, Trump has repeatedly released dramatic ultimatums for pressures to accept the release of more hostage to Hamas and the return of Gaza’s civilian population to see more aid.
Nevertheless, Trump sees it as a potential turning point in the brutal conflict that leaves the current moment. More than 56,000 dead Palestine. The Gaza Ministry of Health does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in the number of deaths, but more than half of the dead are women and children.
The war began on October 7, 2023 when the militants led by Hamas attacked Southern Israel, killed 1,200 people and roughly 250 hostages.
The war left the coastal Palestinian territory to the ruins, and most of the urban landscape was flattened in the war. More than 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million was usually displaced several times. And the war created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and pushed hundreds of thousands of people to hunger.
Bassem Mroue reported from Beirut. Josef Federman contributed to this report from Jerusalem.
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