from Daily Sabah
Israeli media outlets reported on Wednesday that Palestinian resistance movement Hamas wanted Türkiye, along with Russia and China, to act as guarantors in any cease-fire deal with Israel.
Israel’s Kan11 news quoted an Israeli source involved in the negotiations for the release of hostages held by Hamas, saying that the group’s demands did not appear in the previous drafts it submitted for the deal. Media reports say Israel and the United States rejected this condition.
U.S. President Joe Biden presented a three-stage cease-fire roadmap last month and Hamas recently sent its response to the deal. The three-stage plan, endorsed by the U.N. Security Council and some countries, includes a six-week cease-fire, a hostage-prisoner exchange and Gaza's internationally-backed reconstruction. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has said "many" of Hamas's demands were "minor and not unanticipated," while "others differ more substantively from what was outlined in the U.N. Security Council resolution." U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was in Qatar to discuss the issue, said Israel was behind the plan, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government has far-right members strongly opposed to the deal, has yet to endorse it formally...
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