“Hamas doesn’t want an agreement, we don’t accept diktats.” Delegation leaves Cairo, will return on Tuesday. Media: Biden

“It is Hamas that is preventing an agreement for the release of the hostages.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this, adding that “Israel was and still is ready to conclude a truce in the fight to free our abductees.” But Hamas, he added, “remained entrenched in its extreme positions, first of all the request to withdraw all our forces from Gaza. Israel cannot accept it”. “Therefore – he underlined – Israel will not accept the requests of Hamas, which mean surrender, and he will continue to fight until all his objectives are achieved.”