Ceasefire negotiations back to 'square one,' Hamas says

The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday that efforts to negotiate a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip were back to square one, after Israel effectively rejected a proposal by international mediators.A wounded child sits on debris at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah on Thursday. Hamas said on Friday that efforts to negotiate a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip were back to square one, after Israel effectively rejected a proposal by international mediators.

Indirect diplomacy has failed to end a war that health authorities in Gaza say has killed almost 35,000 people since the Oct. 7 attack. Some 1,200 people were killed in Israel and 253 taken hostage on Oct. 7, according to Israeli tallies. "In the light of Netanyahu's behaviour and rejection of the mediators' document and the attack on Rafah and the occupation of the crossing, the leadership of the movement will hold consultations with the brotherly leaders of the Palestinian factions to review our negotiation strategy."Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of Rafah on Friday, with intense fighting between Israeli forces and militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Israel says it cannot win the war without assaulting Rafah to root out thousands of Hamas fighters it believes are sheltering there. Hamas says it will fight to defend it.

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