PM’s office says Hamas seeking unacceptable changes to hostage deal proposal

Original Post by
The Times of Israel


The Prime Minister’s Office confirms in a statement that an Israeli negotiating team will head to Qatar on Sunday for hostage talks.

“The changes that Hamas is seeking to make to the Qatari proposal were delivered to us last night and are not acceptable to Israel,” says the PMO.

According to a source involved in the mediation efforts, Hamas wants three core changes. It wants the agreement to say that talks on a permanent ceasefire will continue until an agreement is reached; that aid will fully resume through mechanisms backed by the United Nations and other international aid organizations; and that the IDF withdraw to positions it maintained before the collapse of the previous ceasefire in March.

MSN

 

[Margery]

I'm SHOCKED I tell you, just SHOCKED!!!

Tom of Watchman River this morning had things to say about Hamas. Many things actually!

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

W - H - Y . . . A - R - E . . . T - H - E - R - E . . . S - T - I - L - L . . . H - O - S - T - A - G - E - S ???

 

[Tall Timbers]

I find their demands fortuitous as they allow Israel to press on.

It would be good if a place was reached where the hamas remaining alive wish to surrender. So desperate that they want to throw in the towel. So few left that if a few more days were to pass there would be no hamas left to surrender.