Hamas not willing for ‘new talks’ with Israel, official says

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it “would not take part in new talks” with the Israeli regime on a ceasefire in Gaza.

That is according to a statement by the resistance group’s Ahmad Abdul Hadi on Wednesday.

In addition to Hadi, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri also told Reuters on the same day, “Hamas is committed to the proposal presented to it on July 2, which is based on the UN Security Council resolution and the (US President) Biden speech and the movement is prepared to immediately begin discussion over a mechanism to implement it.”

“Going to new negotiation allows the occupation to impose new conditions and employ the maze of negotiation to conduct more massacres.”

Meanwhile, the English-language daily newspaper Arab News, published in Saudi Arabia, reported on Wednesday that unpublished documents seen by The New York Times show Israel demanded new ceasefire conditions in late July of US, Egyptian and Qatari mediators.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu privately added new conditions to the Tel Aviv regime’s proposed ceasefire talks with Hamas, the report said.

Netanyahu repeatedly blamed Hamas officials for the stalled negotiation process, despite criticism leveled at him from Israeli officials, it added.

“Among the most contentious new proposals was an Israeli demand that it oversees the Philadelphi Corridor on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt after the fighting stops… That proposal was absent from the Israeli conditions proposed in May,” the Times reported.

In response, Hamas called on mediators “to present a plan to implement what was agreed upon by the movement on July 2, 2024, based on Biden's vision and the UN Security Council resolution.”

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