Netanyahu's evasive response to US proposed ceasefire and new conditions killed the Israeli hostages

 

al Jazeera:

Israel’s war on Gaza: Israelis hold mass protests, demand truce deal

By Lyndal Rowlands and Zaheena Rasheed

Published On 2 Sep 20242 Sep 2024

• Israeli forces continued to pound the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including 11 sheltering at a school in northern Gaza City and four travelling in a car near central Deir el-Balah.
• Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel, demanding a ceasefire deal after the bodies of six more captives were recovered from Gaza. The country is also set for a general strike.
• In the occupied West Bank, the death toll from Israel’s large-scale raids rose to 26 as the Israeli siege on the Jenin refugee camp entered a sixth day, leaving Palestinians without access to food, water, power and the internet.
• At least 40,738 people have been killed and 94,154 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza

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The senior Hamas leader told Al Jazeera that the six captives whose bodies had been found in Gaza could have been brought back alive had Israel agreed to a ceasefire deal.

He said Hamas has shown flexibility in negotiations, including by reducing the number of Palestinian prisoners whose release they’ve been seeking as well as agreeing to the proposal presented by Biden and backed by the UN Security Council.

But Netanyahu has met Hamas’s flexibility with evasion and new conditions, al-Hayya said.

These include a refusal to release elderly prisoners who are serving life sentences and an insistence on Israeli forces remaining in the so-called Netzarim corridor in central Gaza and the Philadelphi Corridor on the Palestinian enclave’s border with Egypt.

Al-Hayya said there will be no agreement without Israeli forces withdrawing from the Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors.

He added that the Palestinian people see no hope, except through resistance, and will not surrender.