Incoming Trump administration pressuring Netanyahu on ceasefire deal
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a "last-minute crisis" with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited ceasefire that would pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages. It was not yet clear if Netanyahu’s statements merely reflected jockeying to keep his fractious coalition together or whether the deal was genuinely at risk. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Carys Garland welcomed Jean-Loup Samaan, author, senior research fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and associate researcher at the Institut Montaigne.
Netanyahu delays Gaza cease-fire deal as he accuses Hamas of ‘reneging’ on pact
Israeli PM says Palestinian militants are “creating a last-minute crisis.”
“Hamas is reneging on the understandings and creating a last-minute crisis that is preventing an agreement,” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said n a statement. | Maya Alleruzzo/AFP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Thursday his Cabinet won’t meet to approve the Gaza cease-fire deal until Hamas backs down from a “last-minute crisis.”
“Hamas is reneging on the understandings and creating a last-minute crisis that is preventing an agreement,”Netanyahu’s office said Thursday in a statement, according to local media.
“The Israeli cabinet will not convene until the mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements of the agreement,” the statement added.
The Israeli Cabinet was set to meet Thursday to approve a cease-fire and hostage-release deal with Hamas in Gaza brokered by the U.S., Qatar and Egypt, raising hopes for the end of a 15-month war which killed tens of thousands of people.
Following the Israeli announcement, senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq denied the accusations his group had reneged on some details of the deal and said it is committed to respecting the agreement, Al Jazeera and The Times of Israel reported.
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