According to a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Israel has started “a new round of killing” in Gaza “under the continued support” of the U.S government.
Posting on X, Nasser Kanaani said that “the political and legal responsibility for the continuation of the aggression and massacre” rests with Israel, the US and “a few governments that support this apartheid regime.”
Also, Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at Chatham House, opined that the U.S has enough leverage to stop the fighting and influence other countries to change the course of the war.
Speaking with a news agency, Mekelberg said, “Europe responds in many ways to what the United States’ stand is.”
He added that the U.S had laid out the parameters for Israel’s continued bombardment on Gaza.
Mekelberg stated that Israel’s timeframe to carry out its war against Hamas is “much shorter” and eventually a ceasefire will be called.
“The way that the war is conducted right now and what is developing in Gaza, it can’t continue for weeks, definitely not for months,” Mekelberg said.
Meanwhile, Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that what Israel did not achieve during the first 50 days of the war, it “will not achieve by continuing its aggression after the truce.”
“With the steadfastness of our people and the heroism of our resistance, we confront the enemy’s crimes, the resumption of its Nazi aggression, and its targeting of civilians,” he said in a statement.
Hamas disclosed that Israel refused an offer to release more captives and the dead bodies of an Israeli family killed in Israeli air strikes.
“We offered to hand over the bodies of the Bibas family, release their father so that he can participate in their burial, and hand over two Israeli detainees,” the group said in a statement.
Israel refused “all these offers because it had [made] a prior decision to resume its criminal aggression against the Gaza Strip,” it added.
Truce Is Not The Solution
In a phone interview with a news agency, Osama Hamdan, a senior spokesperson for Hamas noted that the solution to the Israel-Hamas conflict is not to have a truce.
According to him, the real solution is to find mechanisms to put an end to this occupation.
“We have spent time having conversations with all mediators, and we need to thank the efforts of Egypt and Qatar to try to reach a formula to end the aggression.
“But the aggression has stopped everything. We are open to any efforts that aim to put an end to the aggression that benefits the interest of our people.”
Osama Hamdan
He added that the Hamas leadership was cooperating with efforts to put an end to the aggression “but unfortunately, some parties were not ready to exert more effort, other than Qatar and Egypt.”
“The American administration hasn’t put a lot of pressure on Israel,” he said.
Meanwhile, Qatar confirmed that negotiations between Hamas and Israel are continuing “with the aim of returning to a state of the pause.”
In a statement, the Qatari Foreign Ministry expressed its “deep regret” over Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza.
The ministry said that the fighting complicates the mediation efforts and “exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip.”
The ministry also called on the international community to act “quickly” to stop the violence.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also disclosed that he regrets that fighting has resumed in Gaza and hopes that a pause in fighting can be renewed.
“The return to hostilities only shows how important it is to have a true humanitarian ceasefire,” Guterres said in a post on X.
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