Hamas rejects Israeli ceasefire, hostage return deal over disarmament demands

Hamas appears to person rejected Israel’s latest effort to unafraid a ceasefire and the instrumentality of astir a twelve hostages who person been held successful the Gaza Strip for 556 days.

The violent enactment has yet to contented a ceremonial effect regarding its rejection of Israel’s ceasefire proposal, but according to remarks by Hamas person Abu Zuhri to reporters connected Tuesday, "Handing implicit the resistance's weapons is simply a cardinal reddish lines and is not taxable to consideration, fto unsocial discussion."

Fox News Digital could not independently verify the grade of the presumption progressive successful the deal, but sources said the conditions included a 45-day ceasefire and the instrumentality of humanitarian assistance – which has been blocked since March 2 – successful speech for 11 hostages and the disarmament of Hamas.

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Israelis Or Levy, Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami are handed implicit to the International Committee of the Red Cross by Hamas terrorists successful Deir al Balah, Gaza, connected Feb. 8, 2025. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Israeli authorities assesses that 24 of the 59 hostages held successful the Gaza Strip are inactive alive, including American Israeli Edan Alexander – who had a 2nd impervious of beingness video released by Hamas connected Saturday, the eve of Passover. 

But Hamas connected Tuesday claimed it had mislaid interaction with the soldiers said to beryllium guarding Alexander and accused Israeli forces of targeting his location, though it did not supply grounds of immoderate strike. 

Hamas connected aggregate occasions has falsely blamed Israeli attacks for either the decease of oregon the nonaccomplishment of connection with hostages held crossed the Gaza Strip. 

Fox News Digital could not instantly scope Israeli authorities nor Alexander’s household for confirmation of the Tuesday claims posted successful a Telegram station by Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades.

News of the proposal’s nonaccomplishment does not look to person travel arsenic a astonishment to mediators, who stay tight-lipped and person not responded to Fox New Digital’s questions.

Some reporting suggested that mediators were not assured the Israeli ceasefire connection would summation overmuch traction contempt Israel’s continued advances successful Gaza due to the fact that it did not suggest immoderate withdrawal presumption and called connected Hamas to relinquish its arms. 

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Edan Alexander, calved successful Tel Aviv and raised successful New Jersey, is simply a hostage of Hamas successful Gaza. (Hostage Family Forum)

Israel frustrated mediators past period erstwhile it resumed subject operations crossed the Gaza Strip pursuing the extremity of the archetypal ceasefire and the nonaccomplishment to unafraid a 2nd phase, which was intended to spot the merchandise of the remaining hostages. 

Israel implicit the play captured much territory successful the Gaza Strip aft reports earlier this period indicated it had taken implicit fractional of the Palestinian territory arsenic talks stay stalled implicit ceasefire negotiations. 

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said connected Sunday the IDF had captured territory successful the confederate information of the Gaza Strip from the Philadelphia Corridor, which runs on the borderline betwixt Egypt and the Gaza Strip, and the Morag axis, a caller corridor announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, which cuts disconnected the metropolis of Rafah and confederate Gaza disconnected from Khan Younis – astir a 4th of the mode up the Strip from the Egyptian border. 

Katz said the country has go a buffer portion controlled by the IDF.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands earlier a representation showing the Gaza Strip, during a property league astatine the Government Press bureau successful Jerusalem, Sept. 4, 2024.  (Abir Sultan/Pool via Reuters)

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"The country of the bluish borderline successful Gaza is besides deepening and expanding arsenic portion of the information portion and the extortion of Israeli settlement," helium said successful a station connected X. "Hundreds of thousands of residents person already evacuated from the combat zones and tens of percent of Gaza's territory has go portion of Israel's information zones.

"The main extremity is to exert dense unit connected Hamas successful favour of returning to the outline of releasing the abductees," Katz continued. "Gaza volition go smaller and much isolated, and much and much of its residents volition beryllium forced to evacuate the combat zones."