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Israeli official blames Hamas for collapse of talks for potential hostage, truce deal
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team believed there could be an agreement over a hostage deal framework in the coming days, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.
It was Hamas’s repeated insistence that Israel agree to end the war that caused the latest efforts to collapse, the official indicates.
“Hamas wants to declare victory, that’s its entire aim in the talks,” the official argues. “There is no way Israel will agree to it.”
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