Mossad claims that Palestinian Hamas has rejected the latest truce plan in Gaza. The emissaries of Israel and Hamas met last Sunday in Cairo with those of Egypt, Qatar and the United States for yet another attempt at indirect negotiation.
Hamas, in its response to the Egyptian and Qatari mediators, reaffirmed its demands, without however explicitly rejecting the content of the project. Israel “will continue to work to achieve the objectives of the war against Hamas with all its might, and will turn over every stone to bring back the hostages from Gaza,” the same source added. The leader of Hamas, Ismaïl Haniyeh, affirmed that the death in an Israeli strike of three of his sons, in the north of the Gaza Strip, would not weaken the Islamist movement vis-à-vis Israel. “Our demands are clear and we will not give up on them. If the enemy believes that targeting my sons at the height of the negotiations and before Hamas gives its response, will push the movement to change its position, he is wrong,’ he said.