Israel rejects a reported counteroffer by Hamas for a potential hostage deal on Thursday, but sent negotiators to Qatar to continue negotiations, as hope increased for a agreement that could lead to a temporary ceasefire in the near future.
Israel rejected a reported counteroffer by Hamas for a potential hostage deal on Thursday, but sent negotiators to Qatar to continue negotiations, as hope increased for an agreement that could lead to a temporary ceasefire in the near future. Hamas offered to release female Israel i hostages, of whom there are thought to be over a dozen, along with elderly and ill hostages.
In return, it demanded the release of 100 convicted Palestinian terrorists serving life sentences for the murder of Israelis, and an agreement by Israel to end the war for a second hostage release. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas’s demands: “Hamas is continuing to hold to unrealistic demands,” he said in a statement Thursday. Israel has long said that it will not end the war until Hamas’s military and governing capacity have been destroyed, and Netanyahu has refused to release Palestinian terrorists with Israeli blood on their hand
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