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lapucelle

(19,530 posts)
Wed May 8, 2024, 09:36 AM May 2024

US: Hamas claimed to accept ceasefire offer, but 'that's not what they did'

US: Hamas claimed to accept ceasefire offer, but ‘that’s not what they did’

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller pushes back on Hamas’s claim yesterday that it had accepted the ceasefire proposal that was on the table.

Israel had agreed to what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described as a “generous” hostage deal proposal late last month,” Miller explains at a press briefing. “That’s the offer that was on the table.”

“Hamas seemed to make clear in their public statements that they accepted that offer yesterday. That is not what they did. They responded with amendments or a counter-proposal, and we’re working through the details of that now,” he says, noting that CIA chief Bill Burns is in Cairo along with delegations from Israel, Hamas and Qatar.

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Miller notes that most media outlets reported Hamas’s statement that it had accepted the Qatari and Egyptian mediators’ hostage deal proposal at face value.

“I don’t blame the reporting. It’s what the [Hamas] statement said. But it’s not an accurate reflection of what happened… Hamas did not accept a ceasefire proposal. Hamas responded and in their response made several suggestions.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-hamas-claimed-to-accept-ceasefire-offer-but-thats-not-what-they-did/
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US: Hamas claimed to accept ceasefire offer, but 'that's not what they did' (Original Post) lapucelle May 2024 OP
Hamas lied? That's unpossible! AZSkiffyGeek May 2024 #1
Who will the press believe? the US State Department or Hamas? lapucelle May 2024 #2
Israel is better off ignoring them. jimfields33 May 2024 #3

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,578 posts)
1. Hamas lied? That's unpossible!
Wed May 8, 2024, 09:40 AM
May 2024

There's eleventy billion dead Palestinians that prove they are always truthful in their press releases!

jimfields33

(18,656 posts)
3. Israel is better off ignoring them.
Wed May 8, 2024, 10:00 AM
May 2024

Do what you can to get rid of Hamas and go on with life. There is no appeasing these Hamas terrorists.

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