CAIRO: Hamas and two other Palestinian militant groups said on Saturday (Dec 21) that a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel is "closer than ev
Palestinians hold photographs of prisoners jailed in Israel during a rally marking the annual prisoners' day in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Apr 17, 2024. "The possibility of reaching an agreement is closer than ever, provided the enemy stops imposing new conditions," Hamas , Islamic Jihad and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said in a rare joint statement issued after talks in Cairo on Friday.
"Some unresolved points remain, but they do not hinder the process. The agreement could be finalised before the end of this year, provided it is not disrupted by Netanyahu's new conditions." "I don't want to hazard a guess as to what the probability is," he said at the Council on Foreign Relations. Palestinian militants led by Hamas abducted 251 hostages during their attack on Israel on October 7 last year. Of those, 96 are still held in Gaza, including 36 the Israeli military says are dead.Despite numerous rounds of indirect talks, Israel and Hamas have agreed just one truce, which lasted for a week at the end of 2023.
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