Hamas said to reject proposal for hostage-ceasefire deal before receiving it

The Hamas terror group preemptively rejected the terms of an Israeli proposal for a hostage-ceasefire deal on Thursday night, according to Reuters, in what a senior Israeli official called “bizarre” messages, given that “nobody has read [the proposal] yet.”

A senior Israeli official said Hamas had not yet seen the latest proposal, which was expected to go out “in the coming hours.”

“We haven’t sent it yet, nobody has read it yet. Even the negotiators haven’t got it yet. They will read it before transferring it to Hamas for their reaction,” said the official, presumably referring to the Arab intermediaries facilitating the talks.

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