Hamas on Israeli offer: We don’t want to start from square one

The Palestinian militant group Hamas stressed on Tuesday that there will be no new rounds of discussion with the Israeli party until it approves the last draft proposal that the group previously agreed to.

“We did not accept to receive what was offered to us by the mediators, because we do not want to start from square one,” a senior Hamas official told Al Mayadeen, adding that the group is “surprised” by Washington’s pressure on mediators to push the proposed deal “while the Israelis do not agree.” The Hamas official also said that the group’s delegation would not be traveling to Cairo for talks today.

US President Joe Biden previously outlined the three-phase proposal put forward by Israel that, according to him, includes a complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that the US president did not present details of the agreement, pointing out that Israel would not agree to a ceasefire until all hostages had been released and Gaza no longer represented “a threat” to Israel. NN: Their is no deal on the table. This is little more than a desperate Biden blue pill wet dream.