Hamas says it is ready to release hostages – Liberation

Hamas announced on Saturday evening that it had given the mediators his response to the American proposal for Truce in the Gaza Strip where the Palestinian Islamist movement has been at war against Israel since October 7, 2023, without saying explicitly if he had accepted it. According to an Israeli source quoted by the Israeli daily Haaretz, The terrorist group would actually have presented new conditions, worth rejection. « They wrote their own proposal with totally different elements », quotes the newspaper.

Hamas has nevertheless indicated that it is ready to release 10 living hostages and 18 dead, all removed during the unprecedented attack on October 7 in Israel, as stipulated The proposal of the American emissary Steve Witkoff. « This proposal (without Specify whether it is his or that of the United States, editor’s note) aims to obtain a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and to guarantee the delivery of aid to our people and our families in the Gaza Strip ”, wrote the terrorist movement in a press release.

The United States had indicated earlier in the week having received the assent of Israel to the proposal of the American emissary, without publishing the entire text.

Friday, Israel summoned Hamas to accept the American proposal for truce and the release of the hostages under penalty of« Be destroyed », in words of the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz. But Israel has not so far indicated either explicitly if he had accepted the American proposal.

Israel faces a growing international pressure Regarding war in the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory, where a blockade of more than two months, partially relaxed last week, led to serious shortages of food, drugs and other basic necessities.

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