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Senior Hamas figure says Israeli response to terror group’s truce proposal ‘generally negative’
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Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan speaks during a rally organized by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, in a southern suburb of Beirut, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
BEIRUT — A senior Lebanon-based Hamas official says that Israel’s response to the latest proposal from the Palestinian terror group for a six-week truce in Gaza was “generally negative.”
Osama Hamdan tells a news conference in Beirut that mediators had conveyed the Israeli position a day earlier, but it was “generally negative… and constitutes a step backwards” as talks continue in Qatar.
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