By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Cairo (Reuters) -hamas wants a complete agreement to put an end to the war in Gaza and exchange all Israeli hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said, rejecting Israel’s offer from an interim trial.
In a television speech, Khalil Al-Hayya, the Gaza leader of the group who leads his negotiation team, said that the group would no longer accept provisional transactions, adopting a position that Israel has been shortly accepting and potentially more delay in the end of the devastating attacks that have restarted in recent weeks.
Instead, Hayya said Hamas was ready to get involved immediately in “complete package negotiations” to release all the remaining hostages under his custody in exchange for the end of the Gaza War, the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and the reconstruction of Gaza.
“Netanyahu and his government use partial agreements as coverage of their political program, which is based on the continuation of the war of extermination and famine, even if the price sacrifices all its prisoners (hostages),” said Hayya, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We will not be part of the success of this policy.”
Egyptian mediators worked to relaunch the January ceasefire agreement which interrupted the fighting in Gaza before it broke down last month, but there was little sign of progress with Israel and Hamas that blame each other.
“Hamas’ comments demonstrate that they are not interested in peace but perpetual violence. The terms established by the Trump administration have not changed: release the hostages or face hell,” said the spokesperson for the National Security Council James Hewitt.
The last series of talks Monday in Cairo to restore the ceasefire and free Israeli hostages ended without any apparent breakthrough, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.
Israel had proposed a 45 -day truce in Gaza to allow hostage versions and potentially start indirect talks to end the war. Hamas has already rejected one of her conditions – which she laid her arms. In his speech, Hayya accused Israel of having offered a counter-proposition with “impossible conditions”.
Hamas released 38 hostages under a cease-fire that started on January 19. In March, the soldiers of Israel resumed his ground and the air offensive on Gaza, abandoning the ceasefire after Hamas rejected the proposals to prolong the truce without ending the war.
Israeli officials say the offensive will continue until the 59 remaining hostages are released and Gaza is demilitarized. Hamas insists that it will only be free in the context of an agreement to end the war and rejected requests to submit arms.
Israeli strikes
On Tuesday, the army wing of Hamas Armed said that the group had lost contact with activists holding the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander after the Israeli army attacked their hiding place. Alexander is from New Jersey and 21 -year -old soldier in the Israeli army.
The armed wing then published a video warning the families of the hostages that their “children will return to black coffins with their bodies torn from the bursts of shells from your army”.
Israeli military strikes killed at least 32 Palestinians, including women and children, through the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities announced.
One of these strikes killed six people and injured several others in an unprecedented school in Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said the strike was aimed at a Hamas command center.
The war was launched by the attack on October 7, 2023 of Hamas against southern Israel, during which 1,200 people were killed and 251 hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli accounts.
Since then, more than 51,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive, according to local health authorities.
(Reporting and writing by Nidal al-Mughrabi. Additional report by Muhammad al Gebaly and Ahmed Tolba, Gram Slattery in Washington; edition by Don Durfee and Deepa Babington)
