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Hamas He made the announcement in a brief statement in which he offered no further details, after the Israeli Army ordered some 100,000 Palestinians in eastern Rafah to evacuate the town in the face of a possible ground assault.
“Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, held a call with the Qatari Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and with the Egyptian Intelligence Minister, Abbas Kamel, and informed them of the Hamas movement’s approval of their proposal for a ceasefire agreement.”said the Palestinian group.
At the moment the details of the proposal are not known, nor the position of the Israeli authorities.
It appeared that indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip were at a standstill, after Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuyesterday refused to end the war, a key demand of the Islamist group.
This morning, in fact, thousands of Palestinians in the southern town of Rafah received messages urging them to evacuate to the Khan Younis area, setting off alarms over the possibility that the Army will soon begin its announced ground invasion in southern Gaza. .
The Islamist group today warned Israeli forces that any military operation in Rafah “it won’t be a picnic”and that the armed wing of the group, the al Qasam Brigades, are prepared to “defend our people.”
Hamas also asked international organizations still operating in the enclave, and in particular the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), not to abandon it following Israeli evacuation orders.
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