Hamas said to claim Biden’s hostage deal proposal doesn’t indicate ‘guarantees’ for end of Gaza war

Hamas has reportedly said that the hostage deal proposal presented by US President Joe Biden earlier this evening lacks the guarantees that the terror group requires regarding cessation of fighting and Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.

“Biden’s proposal did not indicate guarantees for a complete cessation of the war nor guarantees for withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,” a Hamas source tells the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat news outlet.

The unnamed source adds that Hamas is “open to all ideas and proposals… and its position is based on a complete cessation of the war and [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.”

Hamas said yesterday that it would refuse to negotiate so long as fighting continues in Gaza.

Talks for a hostage deal have been stop-and-start for months — Hamas has said multiple times that it was not willing to make an agreement unless Israel stopped the fighting and pulled out of Gaza, while Israel has continued to maintain that the war will not end until the terrorist organization has been dismantled and all the hostages returned.