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Hamas military spokesperson says if current talks fail, terror group won’t offer another partial hostage deal
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
The spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, Abu Obeida, says in a recorded speech that “we do not promise to reintroduce a draft of a partial deal and an offer to release ten prisoners [hostages] if Israel withdraws from the current negotiations.”
In his first recorded speech in four months, Abu Obeida says that Hamas had repeatedly offered a comprehensive deal to release all the hostages in recent weeks, but Netanyahu refused.
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