Before Israel's conditions are fulfilled, a ceasefire is a "non-starter", he said.
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 1 there could be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed, casting doubt on a key part of a truce proposal that US President Joe Biden said Israel itself had made.involving an initial six-week truce with a partial Israeli military withdrawal and the release of some hostages while the two sides negotiated “a permanent end to hostilities”.
Hamas said on May 31 it is ready to engage “positively and in a constructive manner” but one of the group’s senior officials, Mr Mahmoud Mardawi, said in a Qatari television interview that it had not yet received the details of the proposal. Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has left the territory in ruins, led to widespread starvation, and killed more than 36,000 people according to Palestinian health authorities, who say most of the dead are civilians.the last place in tiny, crowded Gaza that they had not yet entered in force, displacing more than a million Palestinians who had been sheltering there.
In the US, Israel’s main ally, the extent of civilian suffering in Gaza has put pressure on Mr Biden to stop the war. The President is hoping to win a second presidential term in the November election. “The government of Israel cannot ignore President Biden’s consequential speech. There is a deal on the table and it should be made,” Mr Lapid said in a social media post on June 1.
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