The US president said he had made it clear to PM Netanyahu that if Israeli military ‘go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons’
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Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday it was unwilling to make more concessions to Israel in negotiations over a ceasefire for Gaza, although talks were still under way in Cairo aimed at pausing Israel’s seven-month-old offensive.
Izzat El-Reshiq, a member of Hamas’ political office in Qatar, said in a statement late on Wednesday that the group would not go beyond a ceasefire proposal it accepted on Monday, which would also entail the release of some Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian women and children detained in Israel, Reuters reported. Reshiq said:
Israel isn’t serious about reaching an agreement and it is using the negotiation as a cover to invade Rafah and occupy the crossing.
There are more than 500 people here. (Now) the children and the women have nowhere else to go … They are demolishing our homes, leaving us stranded outside.
We don’t deserve this. We’ve sought a solution for years, hoping for a fair resolution, yet the state has obstructed all our options.
An entire village was wiped out just because its inhabitants are Arab [and] … under the pretext of unlicensed construction …
[Israel] doesn’t allow [Bedouin] citizens to obtain building permits and then demolishes their homes under the pretext of a lack of permits.