Key Takeaways
- Hamas says no ceasefire negotiations with Israel after Rafah attack.
- Hamas’s conditions for reaching a deal, including a permanent ceasefire, remain unchanged.
- At least 45 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on tents for displaced people near Rafah city.
Gaza: Hamas has informed mediators that it will not participate in any negotiation for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip or a prisoner exchange deal after Israel’s attack on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah on Sunday night, a source in the movement said on Monday.
The Israeli army’s targeting of tents housing displaced civilians in the northwest of Rafah killed and wounded dozens of people. This incident led to Hamas’s decision not to participate in ceasefire negotiations.
The source also said that the Hamas leadership had not received any official notification from mediators in Egypt or Qatar regarding the resumption of negotiations.
At least 45 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on tents for displaced people near Rafah city, Gaza’s health authorities said in a press statement on Monday.
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference in Beirut on Monday that Israel would not receive the hostages “except according to our conditions presented to the mediators.”
Hamdan added that Hamas’s conditions for reaching a deal, including a permanent ceasefire, remained unchanged.
