Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says death of three of his sons in an Israeli strike in the north of the Gaza Strip would not cause the Islamist movement to waver in its demands towards 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,” Ismaïl Haniyyeh told the Hamas channel. France, via its ambassador to the UN, had requested a “permanent ceasefire” after Ramadan. The UN Security Council adopted its first resolution for a ‘ceasefire’ on March 25, with the United States abstaining. After a first and last one-week truce at the end of November which allowed the release of around a hundred hostages in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, several series of negotiations took place in Cairo, Doha, in Paris.