Hamas rejects hostage talks until Israel stops attacks on Gaza

Hamas rejects hostage talks until Israel stops attacks on Gaza Euronews

The Palestinian Islamist group will not negotiate the release of more hostages until an Israeli ceasefire. The vote in the UN Security Council was postponed again.

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There will be no further hostage release negotiations until Israel stops attacks on Gaza. This was the position taken by the Hamas End of Thursday.

The Palestinian Islamist group had already rejected Israel's proposal for a sevenday ceasefire at the end of November. This time Hamas is calling for a complete ceasefire.

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If this happens, it is unlikely to be due to a decision by the US Security Council. United NationsAlso interesting: On Thursday, the vote on the project was postponed again. Although this time the representative of US has said he can “support it” if it is put on the table “as is.”

Diplomats did not provide details of the changes that allowed Washington to give the green light. Information is circulating in the international press that the request for an immediate cessation of hostilities has been withdrawn and that the document now calls for “urgent measures to allow the immediate flow of aid to Gaza and to create conditions for a cessation of hostilities.”

According to AlJazeera, the US is satisfied with the wording of the resolution, but Palestinian and Russian diplomats are not, so the vote was postponed again despite the American representative's optimistic statement.

The Israeli President said about the humanitarian situation Isaac Dukewho is in Paris to meet with French senators, stated that Israel “can admit 300 or even 400 trucks per day, but is unable to import more than 125 trucks per day due to a crucial failure by the United Nations.” “

This argument has been repeated for several weeks. Israel accuses the UN of not being able to coordinate the necessary aid. Already those U.N. says that it is simply impossible to coordinate logistics properly when you are constantly being bombed.

According to the United Nations, more than 90% of the population lives Gaza Stripestimated at 2.2 million people, is already in a “crisis” and is at the lower end of the food security scale.

Meanwhile, Israel continues its military offensive. The Israeli Defense Forces spokesman said on Thursday that Israeli troops had killed about 2,000 Palestinian militants in ground operations and in air and sea strikes since the end of a week's ceasefire to date.

According to Hamas, the total number of deaths was over 20,000.

The Israeli army continues to organize smallscale operations in West Bank Also. Israeli units were seen in Ramallah on Thursday night.