OR Hamas He announced earlier on Thursday night (29.05.2025) that he did not accept the outline of the proposed by US envoy Steve Witkov, a ceasefire agreement at the fire in the fire Gauze And it requires some changes, according to a report by the Jerusalem Post.
Citing sources near Hamas, ‘Jerusalem Post»He notes that the Hamas ‘Requires changes in the new ceasefire proposal Steve Witkoff for the Gauze. Indeed, the Palestinian organization characterizes the new American proposal “more biased in favor of Israel than the previous ones”.
Hamas feels cheated by the Trump government, believing that she was “fooled” by a pro -Israeli proposal that does not guarantee the end of the war, he told the Jerusalem Post he knows.
Washington’s new proposal also requires all hostages to be returned to Israel within a week, leaving Hamas without any other margin of negotiation, the source said.
Hamas states that the new proposal was more biased in favor of Israel than previous proposals and that Witkov accepted most of the demands presented by Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer at a meeting with him on May 27, said.
In addition, the new proposal does not provide a clear US guarantee that the temporary ceasefire will lead to permanent, the source said. The proposal does not specify that if the negotiations are extended more than 60 days, the ceasefire will continue and Israel will not be able to violate it unilaterally, as it did in March, the source said.
According to a high -ranking Israeli official, “unlike reports, the Witkoff deal proposed in recent days has not determined the new line of development of Israeli Armed Forces, nor the way in which assistance would be distributed in the context of fire cement.”
Hamas said in a statement: “The leadership of the Hamas movement has received the new Witkoff proposal from the mediators and is responsible for serving the interests of our people, to provide relief and a permanent ceasefire in the strip.”