Hamas pushed for untenable changes to ceasefire proposal: Blinken

Published June 12, 2024 10:18am ET



Hamas requested multiple changes, some of them unrealistic, to the ceasefire proposal that could have temporarily ended Israel‘s war against the terrorist group in Gaza, according to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“Based on what we saw last night, the response from Hamas — numerous changes proposed to the deal that was on the table and that the entire world has gotten behind. But some of those are workable things, some, as I said, are not,” the secretary said in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday. “I don’t want to characterize it further.”

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