After an Israeli airstrike that killed the military leader of Hamas, the question is: Will talks on a ceasefire be called off? A Hamas representative comments on the matter.
A representative of the political wing of the Islamist Hamas denies reports that indirect negotiations with Israel on a ceasefire and the release of hostages are being broken off. It is not true that Hamas made such a decision after the Israeli air strike on Saturday in the south of the Gaza Strip, said a statement on the Hamas channel on Telegram.
The Israeli army attacked the leader of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing dozens of other people. It was not immediately clear whether Deif was also killed or injured in the airstrike. A Hamas representative in Beirut denied on Sunday that Deif had been killed.
Reports: New round of negotiations planned in Qatar
According to Israeli media reports, the head of Israel’s foreign intelligence service Mossad, Daniel Barnea, plans to travel to the Qatari capital Doha in the coming days for another round of hostage talks.
The negotiations, which have been ongoing for months, are about exchanging the remaining hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and a ceasefire in the Gaza war. The indirect talks are progressing slowly. Israel has so far rejected Hamas’s demand for a permanent ceasefire.
The war was triggered by the unprecedented massacre carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist Palestinian organizations in southern Israel on October 7. They killed more than 1,200 people and abducted another 250 as hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Stern
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