Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Hamas’s offer to lay down weapons, labelling the militant group’s terms ‘unacceptable’.
US President Donald Trump had previously hailed the proposed deal as a breakthrough, but Hamas said it was conditional on the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
The US-backed Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, is expected to attempt to revive the disarmament talks in a meeting with the Israeli leader and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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