Hamas has said it will not join ceasefire talks this week.
Talks are due to take place on Thursday to discuss a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
However, a Hamas representative in Lebanon told Sky News that delegates from the militant group would no longer be taking part.
In a statement, Ahmad Abdul Hadi said Hamas were not against ceasefire talks “in principle”.
However, they said they would not participate this week because Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not interested in reaching an agreement that ends the aggression completely”.
“Rather he is deceiving and evading and wants to prolong the war, and even expand it at the regional level, and thus he uses negotiations as a cover to continue his aggression against our people and commit more massacres against them.”
The group said they would return to negotiations if there were a “clear commitment” from the Israeli government to approve an ceasefire proposal put forward by them in July.
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Source : Sky News
