| And Hamas is blocking the ceasefire over demands that Israel never attacks Sinwar. Also their demand that Israel must first surrender and withdraw before anything else happens. What we do not have here is a meeting of minds, no matter how desperate America’s Secretary Blinken might be. |
A Hamas official on Friday accused Israel's prime minister of refusing to agree to a final truce accord for Gaza, where the presence of Israeli troops on the Egyptian border remained a major sticking point.An Israeli team was in Cairo "negotiating to advance a hostage (release) agreement", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman Omer Dostri told AFP late on Thursday.