Still less than a month after their ceasefire broke down and Israel renewed its strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, the terror group has further expressed its desire for a new agreement.
Despite its apparent belief that the war in Ukraine can continue indefinitely and that peace can only be secured under certain conditions, Brussels—as well as the leaders of many powerful EU member states—insists that Israel should stop its strikes immediately, even though these are forcing Hamas to drop its demands.
Hamas gave another sign of its worsening position on Tuesday, when one of its officials told AFP:
This war cannot continue indefinitely, and it is therefore necessary to reach a ceasefire.
This is quite a step down from the terror group’s previously stated desire for the repeat of October 7th-style attacks against Israel over and over again.
After national anti-Hamas protests late last month, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas also called on Wednesday for the terror group to stop giving Israel “excuses” for strikes and to “cease making any irresponsible decisions,” even pointing to the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
This was after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Washington on Monday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump were “working now on another deal that we hope will succeed, and we’re committed to getting all the hostages out.” Trump also said:
We are trying very hard to get the hostages out. We’re looking at another ceasefire, we’ll see what happens.
The United Nations also this week attacked Israel for turning Gaza into a “killing field” by blocking aid—often seized by Hamas and handed to terror fighters or sold on the black market—despite Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein stressing there was no shortage because “over 25,000 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip in the 42 days of the ceasefire.”
Marmorstein added that UN Secretary-General António Guterres was less brave than the people of Gaza, because “they’re calling, loud and clear, on Hamas to leave and stop abusing them.”
