Gaza war
Hamas insists on conditions for Gaza ceasefire
After the ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah, there is hope that the Gaza war could now also end. But the fronts remain hardened.
Following Israel’s ceasefire with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas has reaffirmed its fundamental willingness to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, a Hamas representative told the German Press Agency that the organization was insisting on its conditions for a ceasefire.
Hezbollah’s decision is respected, but the Palestinian people are not ready to give up their resistance to Israel despite the suffering in Gaza, he said.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the terrorist organization’s conditions have remained unchanged. Among other things, in return for the release of around 100 hostages, it is demanding a large-scale release of Palestinian prisoners and a complete withdrawal of the Israeli army. Israel wants to keep its troops in strategic positions in the sealed-off coastal strip.
In the massacre by Hamas and other terrorist groups in Israel on October 7, 2023, around 1,200 people were killed and 250 were taken hostage to Gaza. It is estimated that around half of the approximately 100 remaining hostages are still alive. After the Hamas attack, Israel began the war in the Gaza Strip, in which more than 44,200 people were killed, according to Hamas-controlled authorities.
dpa
Source: Stern
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