Hamas: Netanyahu blocks “any chance” for a ceasefire agreement

Hamas head of political and international relations Bassem Naim told Al Jazeera that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing his best to block or undermine any chance to reach a ceasefire agreement. Naim went on to say that Netanyahu was under pressure from the United States and Israeli society, so he decided to “use any other dirty means, including killing our children, our wives, [or] by assassinating leaders.”

Naim’s statements came after Ismail Haniyeh, one of the senior leaders of Hamas and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, revealed that his three sons and three grandsons were martyred in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza.

Yesterday, the head of the American CIA proposed a prisoner exchange, in exchange for the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners and 40 Israeli prisoners, provided that the Palestinian prisoners are deported to another country and are not allowed to return to their homes in the Gaza Strip. .

This unilateral American plan, which provided the interests of the Zionist regime and did not lead to any concessions for Hamas, was rejected by Hamas.