Washington declared on Friday that “the ball’ was “in the hands’ of Hamas. A truce concluded at the start of Ramadan would have been well received.
The Israeli government and Hamas are expected to sign a second truce agreement on Sunday evening. The Palestinian Islamist movement left Thursday affirming that they would make “no compromise on their demands” American President Joe Biden, for his part, admitted on Friday it would be “difficult” to obtain a ceasefire.