The US rejected the demand of ‘impractical’ Hamas as Gaza is hanging in the Trus balance

The conversation to expand the Gaza ceasefire has failed to reach an agreement, a Palestinian official told the BBC, as the US has accused Hamas of “fully impractical” demanding in meetings in Qatar.

The dialogues are trying to find a way after the first phase of the temporary Trus ending on 1 March.

The US proposed to expand the first phase by mid-April, including another exchange of hostages organized by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners organized by Israel.

But the anonymous Palestinian official said that Israel and Hamas disagreed over the major aspects of the deal set by US Middle East Envoy Steve Witcoff in indirect talks.

Israel has not been commented yet, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he would get a report from Israel’s conversation team later on Saturday.

The White House accused Hamas of creating “completely impractical” demands in response to Vitcoff’s proposal.

This will expand the ceasefire in April but will delay a permanent end interaction for the war.

A statement on Friday by Vitcoof’s office and the US National Security Council said: “Hamas is a very bad condition that the time is in his side. It is not.”

“Humas is well aware of the time limit, and it should be known that we will reply accordingly whether that deadline will pass.”

Hamas’s statement viewed by the BBC stated that the conversation is broken.

Netanyahu’s office had earlier stated that Israel accepted the American proposal.

It said that Hamas “remained a firm in his refusal and, accusing the group of” manipulation and psychological war “, did not please a millimeter. ,

Israel and Hamas agreed A ceasefire deal contains three stages In January, 15 months after the war.

In the first phase, Hamas returned 25 surviving Israeli hostages, the remains of eight others and five living Thai hostages. Israel released about 1,800 Palestinian prisoners in turn.

The deal states that Stage Two will include the remaining living hostages in Gaza who are exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners.

But the two sides are currently disagreeing on the number of hostages due to the next release.

They also disagree with Gaza over the return of Israeli soldiers, which suggests that it is happening so far.

Israel opposes this point, while Hamas insisted that this should happen.

Israel has stopped all assistance and electricity to Gaza including food and fuel, To say that we have to pressurize Hamas.

It is believed that Hamas is still holding the remains of 24 living hostages and 35 others in Gaza.

As the indirect talks continued on Friday, the group said in a statement that the final surviving Israel-American was ready to release the mortgage, which is known to be caught.

Aidan Alexander was serving as an Israeli soldier close to 21 Gaza when he was taken.

Under the terms of the original ceasefire agreement, it was expected that it would be one of the last hostages to be issued.

The group also said that it would hand over the remains of four other double citizens occupied during the 7 October 2023 attacks.

This did not give further details or clarified what it would demand in return.

Vitkoff dismissed the proposal, saying that Hamas was trying to look publicly flexible during privately impractical.

On 7 October 2023, attacks led by Hamas killed over 1,200 people in southern Israel, mostly civilians held hostage.

Hamas triggers an Israeli military aggressive, since then killed over 48,520 people, most of them, according to data from the Ministry of Hamas-Integrated Health, which are used by the United Nations and others.

Most of Gaza’s population has been displaced several times.

an estimated 70% buildings Damaged or destroyed, healthcare, water and hygiene systems have collapsed and lack food, fuel, medicine and shelter.