“President Trump has put his finger on the heart of the problem: Hamas, and not the Israeli government as we regularly hear here,” added Mr. Netanyahu.
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He was referring to the repeated attacks from the opposition and some of the families of the hostages who believe that Israel could have reached an agreement earlier for the release of the hostages, but that the Prime Minister is doing everything to prevent this from happening. not.
On Tuesday, Bassem Naïm, a member of the Hamas political bureau, responded to Mr. Trump that “Netanyahu sabotaged all attempts” at a ceasefire in Gaza, and that his message “is addressed above all to Netanyahu and to its government.
MM. Trump and Netanyahu “must end their evil game of using negotiations as a cover for their personal, ideological political interests,” he commented in a statement.
The war was triggered by the surprise attack launched on October 7, 2023 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
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This attack resulted in the death of 1,206 people on the Israeli side, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures and including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
Of the 251 people kidnapped in Israeli territory, 97 are still captive in Gaza, 35 of whom were declared dead by the army.
The Israeli military campaign launched in retaliation has left more than 44,500 dead in the Gaza Strip, the majority civilians, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health for Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN.
