“Without a complete ceasefire, we will not accept any agreement”is the first response that Taher Al-Nono, the press advisor to the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, gave to the Arab media shortly after learning of the ‘yes’ of Israel to the truce proposal announced on Monday by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv.

The Palestinian group insists that the previous proposals they received included their two main demands: a comprehensive ceasefire and a resolution.Total withdrawal of the Army from the enclave“Blinken’s statements are contrary to the truth. Hamas accepted the agreement, but (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu rejected it,” Taher Al-Nono also said after Blinken’s request today that they join this latest truce proposal.

“The statements of Blinken are part of the bias “The US has already presented several draft agreements in June and July, which Hamas accepted a priori and accused Netanyahu of setting new conditions, such as Israeli control of the Philadelphia corridor – the border between the Strip and Egypt used for years by Islamists for arms smuggling – and Netzarin, a military route created by Hamas. Israel in the war that splits the enclave in two down the middle.

The US Secretary of State arrived on Sunday Israel with the aim of relaunching negotiations to seal an agreement for the release of the more than one hundred hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. On Monday he held meetings with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Prime Minister Netanyahu, to whom he insisted that this is probably the last opportunity to close an agreement after months of failed attempts.