A senior Hamas official said on Wednesday that Israel\u2019s response to the group\u2019s latest Gaza ceasefire proposal was negative after mediators handed it over.
\n\u201cOn Tuesday evening, our brothers, the mediators, informed us of the occupation\u2019s position on the proposal \u2026 it is a negative response in general and does not respond to the demands .. In fact, it retracts the approvals it previously provided to the mediators,\u201d Osama Hamdan told a press conference in Beirut.
\nHe said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government were responsible for the failure to negotiate a hostage release in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and stop the fighting in Gaza.
\nTalks on a ceasefire have resumed this week in Qatar, but weeks of negotiations have so far failed to produce the agreement between Israel and Hamas that Washington hopes will alleviate the humanitarian crisis gripping Gaza.
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A senior Hamas official announced that Israel negatively responded to Hamas’s latest Gaza ceasefire proposal, as conveyed by mediators on Tuesday. Osama Hamdan attributed the failure to negotiate a hostage release for Palestinian prisoners and to stop the fighting in Gaza to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. Despite resumed talks in Qatar, weeks of negotiations have not yet resulted in an agreement between Israel and Hamas to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1423,2542,145,2700,415,298,1235,964,299,2701,1671,1864,493,345,1792,1354,1026,114,939,380,293,18],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-ceasefire","tag-conference","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-ceasefire-proposal","tag-government","tag-hamas","tag-humanitarian","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-israel","tag-israels-response","tag-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-negotiations","tag-netanyahu","tag-palestine","tag-prime-minister","tag-release","tag-talks","tag-top-news","tag-truce","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n