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Israel has stopped all humanitarian assistance to Gaza, after rejecting a revised proposal, condemning the ceasefire that stopped the ceasefire at the beginning of Sunday and condemned the latest plan.
The Gaza conflict has been stopped for 42 days, after the two warships agreed to the initial ceasefire in January through the United States, Egyptian and Qatari mediation.
In recent days, Israel and Hamas have exchanged mutual recovery due to the violation of the agreement, the war should have ended and the rest of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza failed to agree on the extension of the war in the second stage.
Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjasin Netanyahu said that Israel agreed to a proposal made by US special envoy Steve Witcoof, which would have increased the ceasefire for another six weeks through the Muslim holidays of Ramadan and the Jewish festival of the Parata.
According to the Netanyahu’s office, the proposal was called on Hamas to release half of its hostages, about 5 people, with both sides started discussing “permanent ceasefire” on the first day of the agreement. Hamas will then promise to release all the rest of the hostage “at the end”. The The If there is an agreement, “Israeli said.
Whether or not Witkoff and US President Donald Trump have administration behind the proposal published by Israel still remains unclear, although analysts believe that Israeli statements and Gaza are likely to be coordinated with Washington.
A Hamas spokesperson Mahmood Mardavi immediately rejected the proposal to say that “it has repeatedly renewed the signed agreements and will avoid implementation of responsibility”.
Mardavi revisted the position of the group that the second stage of the ceasefire was to withdraw the entire Israeli from Gaza, end the war, and reconstruction of the broken region – before the release of any additional hostage.
“This uninterrupted manifer will not return [hostages] To their families, however, the opposite will lead to the continuation of their suffering and endanger their lives, “Mardavi added.
Israel declared in response that “all the products and supplies in the Gaza Valley will stop,” Netanyahu said, who added: “Israel will not allow the ceasefire without the release of our hostages. If Hamas continues to refuse, there will be more consequences. “
Hamas described the decision in a statement “cheap blackmail, a war crime and an elimination of agreement” and urged international intermediaries to pressure Israel to oppose the move.
The initial six -week ceasefire Hamas released six Israeli hostages, of which eight were no longer alive, including Thai foreign workers. Israel instead released more than 1,5 Palestinian prisoners from his jail and provided 1,220 trucks to enter Gaza every week.
Israel delayed the start of the ceasefire in the second phase, which should have begun four weeks ago under the terms of the main agreement signed in January. The latest bass discussion in Cairo later last week failed to complete the Israel and Hamas gaps.
Netanyahu claimed Sunday that Israel would return to the war if it was “void of discussion”, he guaranteed from the US administration for such action.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had approved Israel to supply $ 5 billion with military assistance, saying “partial weapons in the previous US administration” by President Joe Biden over the concern of high civilian death in Gaza.
Additional Report of Heba Saleh in Cairo and Stef Chavez in Washington
