According to Hamas, Netanyahu’s comments are aimed at hindering truce negotiations

A senior political official in the Islamic movement Hamas on Friday he accused the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuof trying to obstruct the truce negotiations in the Take it out Linkdevastated after almost seven months of war.

“Netanyahu was the obstructionist element in all previous rounds of dialogue or negotiation and of course continues to be so” he declared Hosam Badran to AFP.

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“He is not interested in an agreement and that is why he makes statements (…), to frustrate efforts“, he added, referring to the repeated promise to Netanyahu order an invasion of Rafain the south of Link.

The Israeli leader claims that Rafa It is the last bastion of commandos Hamas and that it will not be able to proclaim victory until there is a ground operation in that city where there are 1.5 million Palestinians, the vast majority displaced by the war.

“We will enter Rafa and we will eliminate the battalions of Hamaswith or without agreement [de tregua]to get it total victory,” he declared on Tuesday.

Badran reiterated that Hamas studies with a “positive spirit” the latest proposal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages captured by Islamic commandos during the October 7 attack in southern Israel, after months of fruitless negotiations.

The head of the Islamic movement, Ismail Haniyehused the same words on Thursday and stated that the group will “soon” send a delegation to Cairo, where indirect negotiations mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States are taking place.

These statements raised hopes of an agreement that would provide relief to the population of Gaza, where Israeli bombings killed 26 people in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian territory, governed by the Hamas.

The latest attacks mainly hit Rafaon the border with Egypt.

O UN and many countries including U.Sexpressed their fear of a humanitarian catastrophe if Israel orders the invasion.

O World Health Organization (WHO) “is deeply concerned about a large-scale operation in Rafa, Linkwhich could lead to a bloodbath and further weaken a healthcare system that is already dismantled“, said Friday the director general of that agency of UN, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuson social network X.

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Pressure on Israel

A resident of Rafa, Sanaa ZoorobHe said that he lost his sister and six nephews in the attacks.

Two of the childrenThey were found broken in their mother’s arms.” he said, asking “a permanent ceasefire”.

The truce would be the first since a week-long truce in late November that allowed the exchange of 105 hostages held in Gaza for 240 Palestinians held in Israel.

Hamaswhich has governed Gaza since 2007, demands a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops, which Israel rejects.

The truce plan that Hamas under consideration includes a cessation of fighting for 40 days and another exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, according to details released by the United Kingdom.

War broke out on October 7 following a raid by commandos from Hamas that killed 1,170 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 250 in southern Israel, according to an AFP report based on Israeli data.

Israeli authorities estimate that after the November exchange, 129 people remained detained in Gaza and that 35 of them died.

Israel announced this Friday the death of Dror ora 49-year-old hostage, and the kibbutz where he lived asked this Hamas give back your body.

Netanyahu faces protests within Israel so that his government, made up of nationalist, far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties, negotiates the launch of kidnapped.

The offensive launched by Israel in response to the attack has so far left 34,622 people dead in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to the Gaza government’s Ministry of Health. Hamas.

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“Hunger”

O humanitarian crisis and the growing number of deaths in Link They generated demonstrations around the world, including a broad protest movement against American universities, repressed by the police.

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Pedroannounced on Wednesday the break of relations with Israel It is Türkiye reported on Thursday that it will suspend trade.

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogandeclared on Friday that this measure was taken “to force Israel accept a ceasefire and increase the volume of humanitarian aid.”

The arrival of more help Linkwhere 2.4 million people live and face serious needs due to the siege established by Israel, is one of the key issues.

Under the pressure of U.SIsrael has increased the flow of aid in recent days and the WHO indicated on Friday that food availability improved slightly.

The American NGO World Central Cuisine resumed its activities this week, after this organization founded by the Spanish chef José Andrés suspended operations after an Israeli bombing that killed seven employees.

“When this kitchen closed, a lot of people were left hungry”he indicated Zakria Yahya Abukuwaikadministrator of an NGO center in Rafah.

Source: Elcomercio

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