Smoke rises in the distance over Gaza City on Tuesday. Photograph: Saher Alghorra/The New York Times
Hamas said on Tuesday it wants to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza based on US president Donald Trump’s plan but still has a set of demands, a statement signalling that indirect talks with Israel in Egypt could be difficult and lengthy.
Senior Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum set out Hamas’s position on the second anniversary of the Palestinian militant group’s attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, and one day after the indirect negotiations began in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The talks appear the most promising yet for ending a war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and devastated Gaza since the October 7th, 2023 attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken back to
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