Hamas and Israel blame each other for ceasefire delay

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Source: Reuters

December 25, 2024 10:37 AM EST Updated 3 hours ago


DUBAI/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Dec 25 (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Wednesday over their failure to conclude a ceasefire agreement despite progress reported by both sides in past days. Hamas said that Israel had laid down further conditions, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the group of going back on understandings already reached.

"The occupation has set new conditions related to withdrawal, ceasefire, prisoners, and the return of the displaced, which has delayed reaching the agreement that was available," Hamas said. It added that it was showing flexibility and that the talks, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, were serious.

Netanyahu countered in a statement: "The Hamas terrorist organization continues to lie, is reneging on understandings that have already been reached, and is continuing to create difficulties in the negotiations." Israel will, however, continue relentless efforts to return hostages, he added.

Israeli negotiators returned to Israel from Qatar on Tuesday evening for consultations about a hostage deal after a significant week of talks, Netanyahu's office said on Tuesday. The U.S. and Arab mediators Qatar and Egypt have stepped up efforts to conclude a phased deal in the past two weeks. One of the challenges has been agreements on Israeli troop deployments.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-israels-new-conditions-have-delayed-ceasefire-agreement-2024-12-25/

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1. Of course they do

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Hey Bibi, your Boy won.

What's slowing you down from making a permanent ceasefire?

Or are you waiting for Trump and Huckaby to give you Gaza wholesale?

[Eko]

3. Neither want a cease fire.

[walkingman]

4. It doesn't surprise me that religion is used to justify cruelty.

Throughout history, individuals, organizations, and nation states have used “religion” to justify the marginalization, harassment, denial of rights, persecution, and oppression of entire groups of people based on their social identities.

After all, the United States was founded on Christian justifications for oppression. The Pilgrims came to North America with hopes of establishing a purer form of Protestant Christianity than they had found in their native land. These “Puritans” separated from the Church of England to establish their own religious institutions, but they were not interested or willing to extend to others the religious freedom they were seeking

I still consider religions to be the destroyers of humanity.

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5. oh, those two!