Hamas says pulling out of Gaza truce talks after Israeli strike targeting Deif

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****** says pulling out of Gaza truce talks after ******** strike targeting Deif

A ****** official on Sunday said the group is pulling out of Gaza truce talks, following an ******** strike that targeted the militants’ commander

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, who was “fine” despite the ******* according to another ****** figure.

“Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing” the operations of the ****** military wing, the official told AFP. ******* staged a huge ******** raid on a camp for displaced people in southern Gaza on Saturday that it said was an attempt to ***** Deif.

Another senior official from the Iran-backed Islamist group, which has been fighting a nine-month-long war with ******* in the Gaza Strip, said ****** was withdrawing from ceasefire talks because of ******** “massacres” and the country’s attitude in negotiations.

The health ministry in the ******-run Gaza Strip said at least 92 people had been *******, more than half of them women and children, and 300 wounded in a strike on the Al-Mawasi camp.

Ismail Haniyeh, ******’s Qatar-based political chief, told international mediators of the “decision to halt negotiations due to the occupation’s (*******) lack of seriousness, continued policy of procrastination and obstruction, and the ongoing massacres against unarmed civilians”, the official said.

Talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt, with US support, have for months tried but ******* to bring a halt to the war in the Gaza Strip.

– ‘No certainty’ –

Al-Mawasi, where the health ministry said dozens had been *******, had in May been declared a safe humanitarian zone by the ******** military and civilians ordered to evacuate to it. However, there have been multiple deadly incidents there blamed on ******** strikes.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for ************ refugees, UNRWA, described the area as “a sandy 14-square-kilometre (5.4-square-mile) agricultural land, where people are left out in the open with little to no buildings or roads”.

“The claim that people in Gaza can move to ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian’ zones is false”, said Lazzarini on social media site X.

******* said it had targeted Deif, the head of the Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as Rafa Salama, a brigade commander, in a strike on Saturday.

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Saturday there was “no certainty” either man had been ******* in the strike.

Deif has been among *******’s most wanted men for decades and is blamed by ******** authorities for the killings of multiple civilians and soldiers. There have been at least six previous attempts on his life.

He announced in an audio message the start of ******’s surprise October 7 ******* on southern *******, which sparked the Gaza war, and the military has labelled him and Salama “two of the masterminds” of the *******.

Separately on Sunday, rescuers said at least eight people were ******* in three separate strikes on different parts of Gaza City.

The ******** military meanwhile said operations were continuing throughout the territory, including in Gaza City and Rafah.

******’s October 7 ******* resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on ******** figures.

The militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 42 the military says are *****.

******* responded with a military offensive that has ******* at least 38,443 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to a toll from the Gaza health ministry issued Saturday afternoon.

– ‘Horrific massacre’ –

The deaths in the camp in Al-Mawasi drew condemnation from governments across the region, with Egypt’s foreign ministry saying such “*******… cannot be accepted under any justification whatsoever”.

The ******** military said of its ******* targeting Deif that “the area that was struck is an open area, surrounded by trees, several buildings and sheds. It was not a tent complex, but an operational compound”.

A ****** statement rejected *******’s claim it had targeted Deif, saying it was intended “to cover up the magnitude of the horrific massacre”.

Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden had said that a framework for a truce and ******** deal he had set out earlier in the war was “now agreed on by both ******* and ******”.

“There are still gaps to close, but we’re making progress,” he added.

On Saturday night ****** official Bassem Naim told AFP that Netanyahu was to blame for the impasse and called on Biden to put “sufficient pressure” on the ******** leader to secure a deal.

The negotiations have been brought to a halt by ******’s withdrawal Sunday, but the official quoted Haniyeh as saying that the group was “ready to resume negotiations when the occupation government (*******) demonstrates seriousness in reaching a ceasefire agreement and a prisoner exchange deal”.

An ******** security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday that the strike showed ******* “will continue to target senior ****** leadership” even as it “pursues negotiations for a ******** agreement”.

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