Netanyahu dismisses Hamas readiness for comprehensive deal as ‘more spin’

By Lazar Berman

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3 September 2025, 11:29 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

This picture shows tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on September 1, 2025. Almost two years since Israel began its campaign in Gaza after Hamas terrorists' October 7, 2023 attack, swathes of the Palestinian territory have been reduced to rubble and the vast majority of its population has been displaced at least once. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Responding to a statement by Hamas insisting that the terror group is ready for a comprehensive deal to end the war in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office calls it “more spin by Hamas, containing nothing new.”

The PMO says that the war can end immediately if five conditions are met — the release of all hostages; the disarmament of Hamas; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control in Gaza; and “the establishment of an alternative civilian administration that does not indoctrinate for terror, does not dispatch terror, and does not threaten Israel.”

“Only these conditions will prevent Hamas from rearming and repeating the October 7 massacre again and again, as it openly vows to do,” Netanyahu’s office says.