Hamas official says group accepts UN ceasefire resolution, ready to negotiate

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri tells Reuters that the terror group accepts a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution and is ready to negotiate over the details.

Yesterday, the UNSC adopted a US-led resolution that urges Hamas to accept Israel’s latest hostage-for-ceasefire proposal.

Israel came out against the resolution last week, taking issue with some of the amendments that were made to the text. The US addressed one of those concerns, dropping an explicit rejection to the establishment of Israeli security buffer zones in Gaza. The move appeared to be enough to satisfy Israel, whose representative at yesterday’s meeting avoided criticizing the resolution or directly commenting on it.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stressed that Israel will not accept a deal that ends fighting in Gaza without the achievement of its goals in the war.