The Islamist group said in a statement that its leader, Ismail Haniya, informed Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence chief that he accepts their proposal.
There were no immediate details on what the deal entailed. The two Middle Eastern countries are mediating the months-long talks between Israel and Hamas.
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the Hamas announcement.
BREAKING: Hamas said in a statement that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar pic.twitter.com/RfuXZm78tu
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Rafah war: PA calls on Washington to ‘prevent a massacre’
The presidency of the Palestinian Authority earlier called on the US to prevent the invasion of Rafah by the Israeli army, which in the morning called on the residents of several districts of this city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip to evacuate them.
“We call on the American administration to intervene to prevent these massacres, for which we warn that there will be dangerous consequences,” the Palestinian presidency says, as reported by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, clarifying that the Palestinian Authority has intensified “intensive” talks with its international partners on this issue.
Earlier, Hamas said in a statement that any attack on Rafah would not amount to a “walk” for Israeli forces and indicated that it was fully prepared to defend Palestinians there.
For his part, Hamas official Izzat al-Rasiq said today that any Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah would jeopardize the truce negotiations.
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