He doesn't give up an inch of ground.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video on Sunday that he "categorically" rejected Palestinian Hamas' conditions for freeing the hostages, after the latter published a report on the October 7 attack.
“I categorically reject the surrender conditions of the Hamas monsters” which demand “the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza” and “the release of all murderers and rapists,” Netanyahu declared.
A hundred hostages remaining
This Sunday, Hamas affirmed in a rare document of nearly 20 pages that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation was a “necessary step” and a “normal response” to “all Israeli plots against the people Palestinian”.
This attack against military posts, community villages and participants in a music festival led to the death of more than 1,140 people, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.
Some 250 people were also kidnapped and taken to Gaza, including around 100 released at the end of November during a short truce.
According to Israel, 132 hostages are still held in the territory, of whom 28 are believed to have died.
The Palestinian armed movement, classified as terrorist by the United States and the European Union, demands “an immediate end to Israeli aggression” while Israel, which aims to “annihilate” the Islamist movement in Gaza, refuses any end to the fighting without the release of the hostages.
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For his part, the leader of the movement Ismaïl Haniyeh, based in Qatar, discussed Saturday in Turkey with the head of Turkish diplomacy, Hakan Fidan, “the establishment of a ceasefire in Gaza as quickly as possible , increased humanitarian aid, the release of hostages and a two-state solution for permanent peace,” according to diplomatic sources.