GAZA STRIP: A senior Hamas official instructed AFP on Sunday (Jul 14) that the Palestinian militant group has withdrawn from talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza war due to Israeli “massacres” and its perspective in negotiations.
One other Hamas official stated the group’s military leader Mohammed Deif was “high quality” and dealing regardless of Israel’s big bomb assault on a southern Gaza camp that it stated focused the wished Hamas commander.
Gaza’s well being ministry stated the assault left 92 useless.
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh instructed worldwide mediators Qatar and Egypt of the tip of the talks on a ceasefire plan first outlined by US President Joe Biden in May, based on the senior official.
The primary section of the deal would have seen a six-week ceasefire with the change of most hostages taken in Hamas’s Oct 7 attack on Israel for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Haniyeh stated Hamas would “halt negotiations as a result of occupation’s (Israel) lack of seriousness, continued coverage of procrastination and obstruction, and the continuing massacres in opposition to unarmed civilians,” based on the official.
“Hamas has proven nice flexibility to succeed in an settlement and finish the aggression and is able to resume negotiations when the occupation authorities demonstrates seriousness in reaching a ceasefire settlement and a prisoner change deal.
Haniyeh stated in a press release late on Saturday that he had known as the mediators and different nations to induce them to place stress on Israel to halt the assaults.
Israel stated Deif, who it considers one of many “masterminds” of the Oct 7 assaults, was the target of the strikes on the Al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza the place tens of hundreds of displaced Palestinians from different districts have gathered.
However Hamas, with out confirming that Deif was on the camp, stated he was alive and dealing.
“Commander Mohammed Deif is effectively and straight overseeing Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades and resistance operations,” the official stated, referring to Hamas’s armed wing.
The Oct 7 Hamas assault on southern Israel resulted within the deaths of 1,195 folks, largely civilians, based on an AFP tally primarily based on Israeli figures.
The militants additionally seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom stay in Gaza, together with 42 the navy says are useless.
Israel has responded with a navy offensive that has killed no less than 38,443 folks in Gaza, additionally largely civilians, based on figures from the well being ministry within the Hamas-run territory.
