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The truce in the Gaza Strip ends; Hamas accuses Israel of rejecting its extension offers

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He Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) This Friday he accused Israel about restart military operations in the Gaza Strip after expiration truce agreed on November 24 at no new

He Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) This Friday he accused Israel about restart military operations in the Gaza Strip after expiration truce agreed on November 24 at no new extension and assured that the Israeli authorities They rejected “all offers” Islamist group to continue the process of releasing those abducted during the October 7 terrorist attacks.

“Negotiations on extending the truce took place all night, during which the movement proposed exchange of prisoners and elderly. He also offered to deliver bodies of dead hostages due to Israeli bombings and hand over the bodies of the dead Bibas Family who died and also free his father so that he can participate in the funeral,” the group said.

Hamas mentioned Sherry Silverman Bibass, Kfir Bibas And Ariel BibasThree people were kidnapped on October 7 and were announced dead on Wednesday. Israeli authorities previously included Ariel, four yearsand Kfri Bibas from ten months, on the list of minors still abducted by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. This made Kfir the youngest person among the hostages.

Makeshift retail outlets in the Gaza Strip during the seven-day truce in the Gaza Strip reached between Hamas and Israel | Photo: Reuters

The Palestinian Islamist group emphasized that “the occupation rejected all offers since it had previously decided to resume military aggression,” and at the same time directly blamed the US for the reset offensive, given that Hamas believes it would “receive approval” from Washington during the Secretary of State’s visit to Israel on Thursday Antony Blinken.

“The people and the resistance led by Ezzeldin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas), which resists and resumes its heroic operations, will reverse all objectives of this criminal aggression and break the will of the defeated occupying army,” the group said, according to the Palestinian news agency Ma’an.

In its turn, Osama Hamdamone of the main representatives of Hamas, in a statement given to the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera, said that the group “is open to efforts to stop aggression“. “The Hamas leadership cooperated with these efforts, but unfortunately some parties, with the exception of Qatar and Egypt, were not willing to make the effort,” he said, referring to the United States.

The US administration is not putting much pressure on Israel” he lamented, before emphasizing that “the solution is not a truce.” “The real solution is to find mechanisms to end this occupation“he noted, thanking Egypt and Qatar for their “efforts” to “try to reach a formula that would put an end to the aggression.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) | Photo: Reuters Archive

Izat el-RishikA senior Hamas official stressed that “Israel will not achieve by continuing its aggression after the truce what it did not achieve during the first 50 days of the war.” “Thanks to the firmness of our people and the heroism of our resistance, we will resist the crimes of the enemy, the resumption of Nazi aggression and attacks on civilians,” he emphasized.

He Government of Qatar confirmed that “Negotiations” are underway between Israel and Hamas to restore the trucealthough he claimed that the “continuing bombing of the Gaza Strip in the first hours after the end of the pause “This complicates mediation efforts and deepens the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.” Shortly before this, Ministry of Health Gazacontrolled by Hamas, condemned death of more than 30 Palestinians in the bombing carried out by Israel after the end of the truce.

The truce, brokered by Qatar and Egypt, came into force on November 24. duration four daysalthough it was extended twice for the total amount three more days. In that case, the parties failed to agree on a new extension, and Israel rejected calls for a ceasefire.

Gazans rest during a truce in the Gaza Strip devastated by Israeli bombing | Photo: Reuters

He Israeli army launched an offensive against the Palestinian enclave following Hamas attacks on October 7, which left some 1200 dead and close to 240 abducted. Gaza authorities, controlled by the Islamist group, estimate that about 15 thousand Palestinians diedto which another 230 are added at the hands of the Israeli army and as a result of settler attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

(Europe Press)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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