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Hamas, up to this moment, remains obstinate. It did not even send a representative to the talks in Doha. Therefore, the pressure should be directed at Hamas and (Yahya) Sinwar, not at the Israeli government,
Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, referring to the Hamas chief Israel is not in the best neighbourhood. We have been preparing for an attack and we are ready for anything. There are diplomatic attempts to de-escalate the situation, but we are ready for everything and anything on any front,
said Major David Avraham, the Head of the IDF International Press Department It has been confirmed as a bomb explosion,
a police spokesperson said I would like to emphasise: We are conducting negotiations and not a scenario in which we just give and give,
Netanyahu told the meeting The Prime Minister will continue to work on advancing a deal that will maximize the number of living hostages and which will enable the achieving of all of the war objectives,
They claimed for months that Hamas would never agree to give in on ending the war as a condition for a deal, and proposed giving in to Hamas’s demand,
The secretary is going to use this trip, starting with Israel, to just continue to stress the importance of getting this done,
The six children have become body parts. They were placed in a single bag,
he told reporters at the hospital After the United States accepted most of [Israel’s] demands, we have to be flexible on the clarifications that were added,
an unnamed source with knowledge of the talks told Israel’s Channel 12. It is to be hoped that the heavy pressure on Hamas from the United States and the mediators will lead to the removal of its opposition to the American proposal, and will allow a breakthrough in negotiations,
a statement Saturday from Netanyahu's office said It's far from over. Just a couple more issues, I think we got a shot,
he told reporters while traveling to spend the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat They don't want to see regional escalation,
As a result of the Netanyahu government's decision to no longer facilitate Norway's representation to the Palestinian Authority, our Representative Office in Al Ram in Palestine must be closed as of today,
the Norwegian government said in a statement on Friday We will act against those who act against us."
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday that From day one, we said we will not accept a temporary arrangement, it was done in November 2023, and the Israelis undermined that,
Netanyahu is procrastinating to make it tough for Hamas to agree,
No doubt [Blinken’s] largest challenge is likely to be to convince the top level of the Israeli government, Netanyahu in particular, to be more flexible with regards to their demands when it comes to this deal,
said Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi Hamas has learned from the past that every time they were closer to a deal and everyone would think it was within reach, the Israelis would do something different, like committing atrocities, targeting or assassinating a leader,
Hassan Harari, a professor of international affairs at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera There is a great deal of negativity from a number of experts, from people here on the ground with regards to the success of this deal, because they say what the US and Israel are doing is creating a sense of cautious optimism while shifting the goalpost and shifting the blame on Hamas for not agreeing to a deal,
Basravi added, reporting from Amman, Jordan due to Israel’s ban on Al Jazeera So we want a full arrangement … including a ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from all parts of Gaza,