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The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has held Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fully responsible for the lives of Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip. This came after Netanyahu approved a plan to reoccupy Gaza following the movement’s announcement of accepting mediators’ proposal for a ceasefire- prisoner swap deal. “We agreed to a partial deal and expressed our readiness for a comprehensive deal, but Netanyahu rejects all solutions,” Hamas said in a statement on its official Telegram channel on Sunday. Hamas said Israeli and American admissions confirm that Netanyahu is the real obstructionist of the [prisoner] swap deals and ceasefire”. According to the statement, the recent statements by former US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed that Netanyahu had been stalling […]
