{"id":113679,"date":"2024-08-13T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/hamas-says-it-will-not-join-ceasefire-talks-this-week\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T18:53:12","slug":"hamas-says-it-will-not-join-ceasefire-talks-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/hamas-says-it-will-not-join-ceasefire-talks-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas says it will not join ceasefire talks this week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hamas has said it will not join ceasefire talks this week.<\/p>\n

Talks are due to take place on Thursday to discuss a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

However, a Hamas representative in Lebanon told Sky News that delegates from the militant group would no longer be taking part.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Ahmad Abdul Hadi said Hamas was not against ceasefire talks “in principle”.<\/p>\n

However, he said it would not participate this week because Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not interested in reaching an agreement that ends the aggression completely”.<\/p>\n

“Rather he is deceiving and evading and wants to prolong the war, and even expand it at the regional level, and thus he uses negotiations as a cover to continue his aggression against our people and commit more massacres against them.”<\/p>\n

The group said it would return to negotiations if there was a “clear commitment” from the Israeli government to approve a ceasefire proposal put forward by Hamas in July.<\/p>\n

It accused Israel of setting new conditions and also said it was angered by the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh<\/a><\/strong>, as well as the recent deadly attack on a school compound in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the US are attempting to broker an agreement to end the war.<\/p>\n

They have spent months trying to get the sides to agree to a three-phase plan in which Hamas would release the remaining hostages captured in its 7 October attack in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, and Israel would withdraw from Gaza.<\/p>\n

However the latest Hamas statement comes as reports have emerged that US secretary of state Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Mr Blinken was due to depart on Tuesday but Axios reported the top diplomat’s travel was delayed over “uncertainty
about the situation”.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Hamas fired two rockets aimed at Tel Aviv for the first time in months.<\/p>\n

On Monday, US officials had said they expected Thursday’s talks to continue as planned.<\/p>\n

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A US State Department official has said Qatar – which has often taken a mediating role – will seek to convince Hamas to participate in the peace talks.<\/p>\n

“Our partners in Qatar have assured us that they will work to have Hamas represented,” US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a briefing with reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

After more than 10 months of fighting, the Palestinian death toll is nearing 40,000 in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry there.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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