Hamas rejects Israel hostage deal proposal, dismisses Netanyahu’s ‘partial deals’

Hamas’s leader in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya, currently outside the enclave, says in a speech that the proposal sent to them for a ceasefire-hostage release agreement in Gaza does not bring about an end to the war or the withdrawal of IDF forces from the Strip.

Hayya stresses that Hamas will not be “part of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s policy of partial deals.”

He adds that Israel has gone back on the ceasefire agreement it signed in January, and that Netanyahu has set “impossible” conditions.

He further states that the mediators must contact Hamas to resolve the crisis that he says was created by Israel.

He says that the terror group is ready to immediately negotiate a deal to swap all hostages with an agreed number of Palestinians jailed by Israel within a deal that would end the war.

عاجل | رئيس حركة حــــماس في قطاع غزة خليل الحية: نتنياهو رد بمقترحات تعجيزية، ونحن مستعدون للبدء فوراً بمفاوضات الرزمة الشاملة وإطلاق سراح كل الأسرى لدينا مقابل عددٍ متفق عليه من الأسرى الفلسطينيين وانسحاب الاحتلال الكامل من قطاع غزة وبدء إعادة الإعمار ورفع الحصار. pic.twitter.com/osS5DwFn4U

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