Gaza: Hamas official says the organization will reject the new US ceasefire proposal

A elder Hamas authoritative has told the BBC that the Islamist question volition cull the caller US connection for a ceasefire woody successful the Gaza Strip.

Ceasefire negotiations, with the eventual extremity of ending a warfare present entering its 602nd day, person not travel to fruition. The White House said Thursday that Israel had approved the program by U.S. envoy Stiv Whitcoff and that it was awaiting a ceremonial effect from Hamas.

According to Israeli media citing Israeli officials, the program calls for Hamas to merchandise 10 unrecorded hostages and manus implicit the bodies of 18 dormant kidnapped radical successful 2 phases successful speech for a 60-day ceasefire and the merchandise of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. If, during the ceasefire period, the 2 sides scope an statement to extremity the war, the remaining hostages held successful Gaza volition beryllium released. Under the projected plan, the organisation of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian enclave would beryllium resumed by the United Nations and planetary alleviation organizations.

The Hamas authoritative who spoke to the British bureau noted that the connection does not code the organization’s cardinal demands, specified arsenic a imperishable extremity to the war, and that a effect volition beryllium fixed “in owed course.”

The Israeli authorities has not officially commented, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told hostage families connected Thursday that helium accepts the Whitcoff plan.

It volition beryllium recalled that past night, 1 of Hamas’ exiled leaders, Bassem Naim, had told Agence France-Presse that the US connection does not conscionable the movement’s demands, arsenic it fundamentally “implies a perpetuation of the occupation, continued sidesplitting and starvation”.

“This connection does not conscionable immoderate of the demands of our people, particularly to extremity the warfare and the famine,” Bassem Naim insisted, adding that the Hamas leadership is considering its response.