Hamas has said it is committed to the ceasefire agreement announced on Wednesday

 

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Hamas has said it is committed to the ceasefire agreement announced on Wednesday

 

Hamas has said it is committed to the ceasefire agreement announced by mediators on Wednesday.

 

Reuters cited senior group official Izzat el-Reshiq making the comment on Thursday morning.

 

The report comes a few minutes after the office of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it had cancelled the planned Israeli security cabinet meeting to approve the deal, accusing Hamas of reneging “on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last minute concessions.”

 

Under the terms of the agreement a first batch of 33 hostages is expected to be released on Sunday in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails, and wounded people in Gaza will be allowed to leave for medical treatment.