Hamas has said a ceasefire deal must result in a permanent end to Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, accusing the United States of \u201cmerely buying time for Israel to continue its genocide\u201d by proposing an amended accord. As the Palestinian group revealed details of Israel\u2019s new conditions, it urged the world to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign the deal proposed by US President Joe Biden on May 31 and backed by the United Nations Security Council on June 11. \u201cThe Israelis have retreated from issues included in Biden\u2019s proposal. Netanyahu\u2019s talk about agreeing to an updated proposal indicates that the US administration has failed to convince him to accept the previous agreement,\u201d Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan said. On Tuesday, Biden said Hamas was \u201cbacking away\u201d from the deal agreed to by Israel. \u201cIt\u2019s still in play, but you can\u2019t predict,\u201d he said while leaving the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. \u201cIsrael says they can work it out \u2026 Hamas is now backing away.\u201d Hamdan\u2019s comments came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv on Monday that he had \u201ca very constructive meeting\u201d with Netanyahu, who \u201cconfirmed to me that Israel accepts the bridging proposal\u201c. \u201cThis is a decisive moment \u2013 probably the best, maybe the last, opportunity to get the [Israeli] hostages home, to get a ceasefire and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security,\u201d Blinken said. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it had recovered the bodies of six captives from Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The US put forward the latest proposal last week after new talks in Qatar\u2019s capital Doha. Hamas said the new proposal meets Netanyahu\u2019s conditions, including his refusal of a ceasefire, a complete troop withdrawal from Gaza and his insistence on keeping control of the Netzarim Corridor, which separates the north and the south of the enclave, the Rafah border crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor that borders Egypt. Blinken left for Egypt\u2019s Mediterranean city of El Alamein on Tuesday for talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at his summer palace. He will then head to a meeting in Doha with Qatar\u2019s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Egypt and Qatar are working alongside the US to broker a truce in the 10-month Gaza conflict. The Biden framework would freeze fighting for an initial six weeks while Israeli captives are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and humanitarian aid enters Gaza. Netanyahu said on Monday that negotiators were aiming to \u201crelease a maximum number of living hostages\u201d in the first phase of any ceasefire. At least 40,173 people have been killed and 92,857 wounded in Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, according to the enclave\u2019s Ministry of Health. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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