Netanyahu rejects the option of a partial deal with Hamas

Jerusalem.- The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected this Tuesday the possibility of reaching a partial ceasefire agreement and the release of hostages with Hamas in Gaza, in an interview with the Israeli channel i24. “I think we’ve left that behind,” the leader said in response to a question about the possibility of negotiating a partial truce. “We tried, we made all kinds of attempts (…), but it turned out they were just deceiving us,” he added. In his response, the leader assured that he wants “all” the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, both the living and the dead, and that is what his Government seeks. Netanyahu’s words come after the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelaty, assured in a meeting with journalists in Cairo that his country is conversing with Hamas and Israel to revive the ceasefire proposal of the US envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, with whom the Egyptian diplomat assured that he maintains “daily contact”.

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That proposal includes a 60-day truce in which the Palestinian movement must release ten living hostages in Gaza and another 18 dead, and a period in which the parties have to negotiate the definitive end of the war in the Strip, something that Israel does not agree to.

In his interview with i24, Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not end the war until it has achieved all its objectives, which include the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the total elimination of Hamas.