The delegation sent by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to Egypt to continue negotiations on a possible ceasefire agreement left Cairo this Thursday to go to Qatar, with no information on possible progress in contacts for the moment. .
Izat al Rishq, a senior official in the political arm of the Palestinian Islamist group, has stressed that Hamas “sticks to its position”, conveyed to the mediators, after accepting on Monday the proposal from Egypt and Qatar, rejected by Israel, that the Tuesday he launched a military raid on Rafá.
Thus, he highlighted that the Israeli offensive and the seizure of the Palestinian side of the pass, on the border with Egypt, seeks to “block the efforts of the mediators and increase the aggression and the war of extermination,” as reported by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin ‘, linked to Hamas.
Hours earlier, Al Rishq himself stated that the group’s acceptance of the ceasefire proposal presented by Egypt and Qatar has “confused” Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and has put him in a “dilemma.” “Israel is not serious about reaching an agreement and uses the negotiations as a cover to invade Rafah,” he stressed.
The war cabinet created in Israel after the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas agreed on Monday to continue with its offensive despite the acceptance of the proposal by Hamas and during the day on Tuesday it launched a ground incursion in Rafah in the which took control of the Palestinian side of the pass, on the border with Egypt.