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We hope for the end of the war."
With negotiators planning to meet, Palestinian Ibrahim Makhamer told AFP in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah Going to new negotiations allows the occupation to impose new conditions and employ the maze of negotiation to conduct more massacres,
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters Israel will send the negotiations team on the agreed upon date, that's tomorrow Aug. 15th, in order to finalise the details of the implementation of the framework agreement,
government spokesperson David Mencer said in a briefing In the last three, four, five days, when this new threat from Hezbollah and from Iran came on the table again, we understood that we needed to take other precautions.”
The museum’s director, Tania Coen-Uzzielli, said There is no more time to waste and there’s no more valid excuses from any party for any further delay,
he said after talks with Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri We were sleeping ... and were surprised by a missile targeting the neighbours, children, their father and mother,
Jihad al-Sharif told AFPTV Hamas wants the Biden plan imposed and doesn’t want to negotiate just to negotiate,
the official said, referring to a ceasefire proposal laid out in late May by Biden That’s my expectation.”
Asked on Tuesday if he thought Iran We have informed the mediators that...any meeting should be based on talking about implementation mechanisms and setting deadlines rather than negotiating something new,
Hamdan said in the new AP interview Everyone in the region should understand that further attacks only perpetuate conflict and instability and insecurity for everyone,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the departure of the Israeli delegation to Doha tomorrow, as well as the mandate for conducting the negotiations,
a statement from his office said They say, until they have that guarantee, they will not be making a decision about sending a delegation to the talks,
So that’s been the messaging, the primary focus being trying to get some sort of ceasefire, hoping that that will prevent wider escalation in the region,
Even though it doesn’t bode well, the United States saying there will be forward movement and that they are planning for that,
If it backs down, it will sort of be seen in the region and maybe within Iran to have backed away in the face of U.S. threats,
There are people who insisted that Israel has deliberately stepped it up because it would prefer to drag its allies into a regional confrontation so as to provide the maximum amount of support to Israel,
said Mirette Mabrouk, director of the Egypt and Horn of Africa program at the Middle East Institute The majority of people feel that this would be just a very, very bad idea,
The fact is that it is Hamas which is preventing the release of our hostages, and which continues to oppose the outline,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month We fully expect these talks to move forward as they should. Our point of view is that all negotiators should return to the table,
Well, the United States does not think that Hamas is an honest broker."
Asked about Hamas' concern about the U.S. role, State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said