Cairo –
A senior official of the militant Islamist group Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said on Saturday that no progress has been made in ceasefire negotiations with Israel over the war in Gaza.
The Palestinian group is still willing to deal “positively” with any proposed ceasefire that ends the war, Hamdan said at a news conference in Beirut.
Efforts by Arab mediators, backed by the United States, have so far failed to broker a ceasefire, with both sides blaming each other for the impasse. Hamas says any deal must end the war and secure a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, while Israel says it will accept only temporary lulls in the fighting until Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, is eradicated.
